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Wait. ICE did something praiseworthy? I'm so confused.
I hesitated to post because I'm not trying to justify ICE in the slightest. The leopards-eating-face moment was too tempting to pass up though.
This is definitely just a broken clock coinciding with the time
ICE is just trying to meet their insane daily arrest quota. They don't care whom the machine eats.
"Who" is grammatically correct there, as the subject of the phrase. "Whom" is an object.
No, the subject of the dependent clause is "the machine," which eats. Whom does the machine eat? The immigrants, of course!
No, "the machine" is the object in that phrase.
Which party does the eating? That’s the subject.
That's not how grammar works. Source: I used to diagram sentences for fun.
I’ve also diagrammed sentences for fun. I’m now a language teacher.
In the sentence, ”X is eaten by the machine,” X is in the subjective (what most languages call nominative, making “who” correct) and the patient, but the machine is the agent.
In the sentence, ”the machine eats X,” X is in the objective (often compared to accusative, but everything that isn’t subjective or possessive is objective in English) and the machine is both subjective and the agent.
I think I may have previously misread your comment then.
Whom is way litter tho