Timeline for Can we use "who" by itself as a subject in spoken language?
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Dec 1, 2016 at 22:38 | vote | accept | Raksapha Rueangsrikamthorn | ||
Dec 1, 2016 at 17:10 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Dec 1, 2016 at 17:01 | comment | added | 1006a | As @MorganFR says in comments, you could also use whoever (or, I will add, whosoever if you want to be more archaically emphatic). It represents something of a middle path between the first and second suggestions: use it if you know some people didn't come, but not necessarily which people or even how many. (It's common in sentences like whoever committed this crime will be caught and punished.) | |
Dec 1, 2016 at 16:26 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |