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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie
Yeah, I've always got the "with whom" part.
Here's the sentence I was having trouble with last week, in a letter to my city utilities dept.
"Ms. Maloney is the person who(m?) your department authorized service for."
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Whom. "For" is a preposition, & preposition objects need to be in the accusative (aka objective) case.
Mentally recast the syntax to make the construction clearer: "Your department authorized service for Ms. Maloney." ". . . for WHOM?" ". . . for Ms. Maloney, you damn bitch."
You could also just leave out the relative pronoun: Ms. Maloney is the person your department authorized service for." Some employers might encourage the slightly more informal tone in writing to customers, but others might not. That's a matter of house policy, not correctness.
Stevie looks like Sheryl Crow in my sig? (shrug) I dunno. I'm so used to her look on the 1978 tour that she just looks like the Stevie on the '78 tour to me.