MrPedantic  +  282420 Wed, 18 Oct 06 12:27 AM  Anonymous wrote: what about this The title of salutatorian goes to whomever/whoever   has the second highest academic average. Would you like to try first, Anon? MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	J Lewis  +  282663 Wed, 18 Oct 06 02:22 PM I've been wanting to start a thread on this "whomever" for a long time; I've seen "whomever" used a lot of times when it should have been "whoever", so I'm glad to see the question settled. The British are less correct than the Americans on this point and rarely use "whom" and "whomever" in speech. J Lewis Joined on Tue, Sep 5 2006 Italy Regular Member 518 Whom

	MrPedantic  +  282835 Thu, 19 Oct 06 12:32 AM  Anonymous wrote: in fact now i realized that I'm ok with that one The title of salutatorian goes to whoever   has the second highest academic average. (correct me if i'm wrong) Spot on. But what about the second one: Whom/Who did  you say this package was for? i'm soving some SAT prep. questions and the sentece is given like this: Whom did  you say this package was for?  and you should spot the mistake. i think that it's ok like this, but the answer is that whom is wrong. Very few people would say "Whom...for?". "Who...for?" is certainly the normal usage. But I would not say that "whom" was "wrong"; simply unusual. Did the question specify "ordinary usage"? MrP MrPedantic Whom

	J Lewis  +  282925 Thu, 19 Oct 06 08:09 AM Certainly in BrE it's mainly reserved for writing. The use of "whom" sounds quite formal, but then formal people exist! It's up to you when and whether you relax the rules, but it's best to make this decision when you're living in daily contact with native speakers. J Lewis Whom