Timeline for "Can I help who's next?"
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| Sep 19, 2012 at 18:27 | comment | added | user16269 | This is an inaccurate parallel. In "I know who shot him", the thing that you know is the answer to the question "who shot him" - you're not implying that you know the shooter, i.e. that the shooter is an acquaintance of yours. So if this were analogous to "can I help who's next", then the latter would mean something like "Is it my fault that Reg is next? Can I help it?" This false analogy is irrelevant to the original question. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 21:50 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2011 at 9:00 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | Related reading: Separated by a common language, Language Log. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 19:45 | comment | added | psmears | +1. To put it another way: the "who" versus "whom" choice is made based on what role the who/whom plays in the subordinate clause, not the main clause - "That's the man whom I saw"; "That's the man who saw me". | |
| Dec 17, 2010 at 18:00 | vote | accept | user160917 | ||
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| Dec 17, 2010 at 2:19 | vote | accept | user160917 | ||
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| Dec 16, 2010 at 19:52 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | On further thought, I think this is excitingly debatable... | |
| Dec 16, 2010 at 19:38 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | +1 Having thought about it, I would have to give this to you Dusty. I might have as well answered a different question! What's the responsible thing to do here? Edit/append/delete? | |
| Dec 16, 2010 at 19:21 | history | answered | Dusty | CC BY-SA 2.5 |