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''Actually,'' you can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than '''whom'''ever talked last. --[[User:Jesse|Jesse]] ([[User talk:Jesse|talk]]) 05:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC) | ''Actually,'' you can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than '''whom'''ever talked last. --[[User:Jesse|Jesse]] ([[User talk:Jesse|talk]]) 05:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC) | ||
: ''Actually,'' "... than '''who'''ever talked last." is correct, which puts you on the receiving end of https://xkcd.com/326/. | : ''Actually,'' "... than '''who'''ever talked last." is correct, which puts you on the receiving end of https://xkcd.com/326/. | ||
β | :Here, ''than'' is a conjunction, i.e. it joins two sentences where the second is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than the basis of comparison]. Each sentence has its own subject and verb+tense. The first has ''You'' and ''can win''. The second has ''whoever'' and ''talked''. '''Who/whoever''' are the subject | + | :Here, ''than'' is a conjunction, i.e. it joins two sentences where the second is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than the basis of comparison]. Each sentence has its own subject and verb+tense. The first has ''You'' and ''can win''. The second has ''whoever'' and ''talked''. '''Who/whoever''' are the subject form and '''whom/whomever''' are the object forms. |
:To use another example, would you say ''I am smarter than '''him''' is'', rather than the correct ''I am smarter than '''he''' is''? | :To use another example, would you say ''I am smarter than '''him''' is'', rather than the correct ''I am smarter than '''he''' is''? |