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raewon
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject: question on the role of whom |
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Could someone please tell me what the role of "whom" in the following
sentence is?
He worked very hard and become the man whom he wanted to be.
Does whom function as the complement of "to be", as a relative
pronoun, or as both?
Thanks for any help you can provide. |
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lichtarbeiter
Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: question on the role of whom |
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raewon wrote: |
Could someone please tell me what the role of "whom" in the following
sentence is?
He worked very hard and become the man whom he wanted to be.
Does whom function as the complement of "to be", as a relative
pronoun, or as both?
Thanks for any help you can provide. |
Both. Relative pronoun is its lexical category while its syntactic function is the complement of "to be." |
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