Clearly someone needed a technical education as a child.
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BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
FYI, your post title should use “whoever”, not “whomever”.
A good trick to tell whether to use “who” or “whom” is to replace “whom” with “him” or “who” with “he”. It’ll be immediately obvious (to a native English speaker) which is correct.
Whomever invented LED bus advertisements becomes Him invented LED bus advertisements
Vs
Whoever invented some stupid shit becomes He invented some stupid shit
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It says “to”. To whom.
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes, that’s normally a good rule to follow, since “whom” is for a sentence’s object, but this is a special case. The clause in question is either a salutation that has no subject or object, and so either “whoever” or “whomever” is correct, or it’s a subject clause (a noun phrase, really) with an unnecessary, stylized “to” for the sake of comedic impact, in which case “whoever” would be correct.