[Magdalen] Joe's potential entry.
Lesley de Voil
lesleymdv at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 23:27:20 UTC 2015
Not sure about your grammar maven,but mine would have insisted that one use, "... , for whom would you have voted?"
Regards
Lesley de Voil
Who perhaps would have recast the whole sentence, such as, "In an election runoff tomorrow would you have voted for Bernie or Joe?" (How times have changed, where's the respect in calling them by such intimate names?)
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Joe's potential entry.
In a message dated 9/20/2015 3:18:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
1) If the primary were today, who would you vote for? Bernie.
2) If Joe enters and the primary were held shortly after, who would you
vote for? Bernie.
3) If Joe enters and the primary is held at the normal time, who would
you vote for? Bernie.>>>>>>>
I pretty much agree with you here, but, um......., it is "Whom would you
vote
for" :-)
Don't blame me; blame Lois Johnson.
David Strang......chatting earlier today with a fellow classmate of
high school 1955 and recalling fondly our English/Latin teacher
for the entire four years, who was as strict a grammarian as anywhere,
Mrs. Lois Johnson (what else in the Upper Midwest?). Her middle
name might as well be "Objective Case."
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