Quote Originally Posted by blunthead View Post
No, "whoever" and "whomever" are pretty much synonymous.
Uh, no, they're not. "whomever" is used as the object of a clause or a preposition. It's quite simple, really: if you'd use a pronoun like "he", "she", "it", or "they", then you'd use "who" or "whoever". So "Whoever is the literary equivalent" is correct.

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