• Wiz@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    * for whomever

    It’s the object of the preposition, asshole. Git gud.

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      3 months ago

      It should be the objective case because it’s an object of the verb “put up”, not because it heads the phrase “whomever the dems put up”. Who/whom has to do with its role in its own phrase, not the larger sentence/clause. Contrast “I will vote for whoever wins the dem nomination.”