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by salner
Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:34 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: who/whoever
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Just a suggestion:

1. In terms of meaning it's redundant.

eg. Who do you want to be chair? -Whoever. OR -It doesn't matter (who).

The 'ever' suffix of whoever, whatever etc is the same as 'it doesn't matter who, which, what etc.