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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Or is it "The monkey for whom I'm wondering if they can see my ears."

"The monkey, regarding whom, I'm wondering if they can see my ears."

"The monkey who I'm wondering if they can see my ears."

All of them sound stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

None sound correct to me. Sounds like you’re trying to describe a specific situation.

Do any of these help:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Could that monkey see my ears? I wonder to myself

Or, I wonder to myself 'could that monkey see my ears?' (maybe not ', maybe a comma? But anything is better than it imo)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

The sentence structure suggests that in OPs sentence the monkey is the subject and part of the sentence is missing.

Like for example,

"The monkey – I'm wondering if it can see my ears? – is eating a banana."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

All of these make sense. All the others seem like crazy talk.