Friday, September 28, 2018

sentence construction - Missed who vs. Missed whom?


I play online multiplayer game clash of clan. Two native English speakers were talking with each other. The first one showed(appeared?) after some days, and then the other person said:



Missed who



The speaker is most probably from New Zealand; if not then Canadian for sure. What I am confused about is that I think the correct way should be to say, "Missed whom". I can think of sentences like:



  • I missed you.

  • I missed him.

  • I missed whom?


  • Whom did I miss?


The you, him, whom all are in object form. So, I think correct usage would be missed whom not missed who?


Is the who usage a vernacular, different figurative meaning, or actually the correct usage?




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