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Originally Posted by tmarkl Why is "whom" used as a reflexive pronoun ?
e. g.
We saw a lot of people, many of whom were sick.
Why can't I say: "We saw a lot of people, many of them were sick?" |
You can say that, but if you write it that way you have a punctuation problem. Perhaps:
- We saw a lot of people, and many of them were sick.
You could also use a semicolon or a period in place of the comma.
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Originally Posted by tmarkl e. g.
The seven defendants, two of whom (why not „them“)
were absent from the court, are charged with burglary. |
You can't use
them in place of
whom, but you can use
them, thus:
- Two of the seven defendants were absent from court. All of them have been charged with burglary.