Q.
In today's Chicago Tribune there's a headline: "Whom is the UN trying to lasso?"
Shouldn't it be Who instead of Whom? I think Who is the subject of the verb and I think the headline writer thinks that Whom is the object of the verb, which is part of the verb to be and does not take an object.
A.
The Tribune is correct on this. The sentence is a question, so the subject comes after the verb. If we rearrange the sentence and make it into a statement, it would come out like this:
The UN is trying to lasso whom. "Whom" is the object of "to lasso."
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