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[-] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 1 points 7 months ago
[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Okay, but can you explain why?

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Whoever is the subject of the verb "did". Whoever did something.

Whomever is an object, so whoever did something to whomever.

In other words, "whoever" does things; "whomever" has things done to them.

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