There is precedent for the use of the nominative after the copula without a nominative antecedent in sentences like “I had no thought of its being he.” I’m not sure why the nominative is prescribed here—it clearly would be ridiculous to use a genitive pronoun after the copula i...
- Wrong: To whom are you referring to? (You can't use "to" twice.) - Wrong: To who are you referring to? (You can't use "to" at the beginning and at the end.) Who versus Whom “Who” (and “whoever”) is the subject case, and “whom” (and “whomever”) is the object...
It would be different with an indefinite pronoun: "let whoever believes in this prophet... / Let whoever is without sin...," because "believes" and "is" have to have a subject and "whomever" can't be a subject. Or an interrogative pronoun: "Who do you believe is without sin?...
Massaging your prostate is also most effective when you do it yourself! The reason is when you do it yourself you will be able to apply the correct amount of pressure to all areas. This is something that you would have to explain to whomever else might do it for you. ...
@h36yang and whomever else it may concern, I got this same issue when working with 0x.js. What was strange was that the error only happened in the production (= minified) js build, not with the development (= unminified) JS build! Well, turns out that this piece of code in web3'...
1. We do use the passive quite a lot, but for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes we don't want to specify who did the action ("The window got broken" rather than "David broke the window") but sometimes it just sounds more natural ("This book was written by Charles Dickens" rather tha...