Comments on: The Bell Tolls For Whom https://booksquare.com/the-bell-tolls-for-whom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=the-bell-tolls-for-whom Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kirsten https://booksquare.com/the-bell-tolls-for-whom/#comment-118520 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:14:27 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/02/21/1821/#comment-118520 I’d lobby, first, to be able to use prepositions at the end of sentences. It’s an accepted, even ingrained pattern in spoken English, and avoiding it in written English makes the sentence in question overly complicated and formal . . .

]]> By: Debra Hamel https://booksquare.com/the-bell-tolls-for-whom/#comment-118514 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:46:20 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/02/21/1821/#comment-118514 You meant the subjunctive mood! 🙂

I like “whom” okay. The more pressing problem, in my book, is agreeing on some gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, or in erasing the stigma that attaches to using “they” or “them” for the purpose. You know, “If anyone wants a stuffed penguin, give one to….him or her? them?” I prefer “them,” but I don’t want people to throw things at me.

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