Sunday 6 October 2013

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 25

Compare these captions:

Link: Rugby Observer, ‘School aims to give pupils a taste of work’, p. 9

Current usage largely eschews the objective case of the relative pronoun who, but the resulting stylistic ugliness here, highlighted by the parallellism of the captions, surely shows there’s still room for whom. (Both subordinate clause should be preceded by a comma, of course.)


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