Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (1037)	4/2/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Penni and Thread, With regard to the sentence Are you who/whom I think you are?, I will come down solidly on the side of who. You can't use whom here any more than you can use the objective case in Whom are you?. The other question under discussion is more complicated: I could not be close to anyone who I thought was rejected by God. Here the operant phrase is "who was rejected" and it requires a nominative "who" because the verb is in the passive voice. Change to active voice, and the objective case is required. "I could not be close to anyone whom I thought God had rejected." The "I thought" is almost parenthetical and can be eliminated to see the grammatical construction better. Or at least that's the way I see it. I don't have time to look any of this up. Jack