By Invitations, Prepositions

The idiom is to have to (do something). It means that the action described by the final infinitive must be done within the amount of time allotted. The students had one hour to complete the exam. We have three months to install the kitchen cabinets. Martha and Sam have only...

Not when the preposition is followed directly by "who", no! (When I said 99.99999%, I was referring only to the choice between "who" and "whom" in the example sentence about an invitation.) CJ

Mister Micawber wrote:Whoever, as the subject of the verb may come, takes grammatical priority. The whole clause is the object of the preposition, to. Does a little bit of alteration change the choice Micawber? as in : I'll send these invitation cards to whomever/whoever the party was...

You use "whom" for the object of a verb or preposition, and "who" for the subject of the verb, e.g. 1. Who's coming to the party? You'll often hear "who" for "whom", when it's used as the object of a verb (as in #2); less often, when it's the object of a preposition (as in #3), unless the...