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Latest post Fri, Jul 31 2009 12:24 PM by Mr Wordy. 1 replies.
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sunsail  +  841482 Fri, 31 Jul 09 10:29 AM
Hello,

You have people with answers

According to Billy answer is X
According to Jane answer is Y
According to John answer is Z
According to Mary answer is X

And you want to ask a question so that you can get people to find whose answer is X.And you say

"According to whom is the answer X? according to Billy or Mary or John"

is there any problem in asking like this?

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Mr Wordy  +  841604 Fri, 31 Jul 09 12:24 PM
It should be "According to Billy, the answer is X."

 

"According to whom is the answer X?" is possible, but in everyday English it would be much more usual to say "Who says/thinks/etc. (that) the answer is X?".

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