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Which would also be incorrect.
by triangleman 10y ago
Which would also be incorrect.
- greenshackle2 10y agoYou're downvoted but you're not wrong. 'Whom is this book for?' is correct. You can tell because the answer is 'her/him', not 'he/she'. See: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoVwhom.asp http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoVwhom.asp
- malnourish 10y agoIncorrect according to whom? If you can understand it, it's not incorrect. You might not like the style, but that doesn't make it wrong.
- alphapapa 10y ago> If you can understand it, it's not incorrect. acn yuo stunderand htis? i no oyu cna so acocrding ot yuo its nto rwong. oaky.
- malnourish 10y agoThat's clearly not what I meant. Grammatical prescriptivism is considered incorrect by pretty much any linguist.
- qu4z-2 10y agoGiven the rephrasing was done to avoid the question of "should we use 'who' or 'whom' here?", I think it's fair to point out that the new phrasing suffers from the same problem.