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Now, “Whoever” is indeed correct. Unfortunately, though, the parenthetical explanation is still wrong. Just as before, “Whoever” is not the subject of “will appreciate”; the entire ...
First Subject Dosed in CANbridge Pharma CAN106 rare disease trial in Singapore for PNH and complement dysregulation diseases Contacts CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc. [email protected] ...
I’d like to take up an intriguing follow-up question on inverted sentences posted recently on my Facebook page by grammar enthusiast Marianne Freya Gutib. The question refers to my July 30, 2016 ...
In my column last week, I discussed why the pronoun “they” rather than “them” is the correct form of the subject complement in this inverted sentence: “The winners of the contests were (they, them).” ...
Even when the intention is to express equality, speech can still reinforce gender stereotypes, because biases can slip through via subtle linguistic cues. For example, a subject-complement statement ...