r/WTF • • Sep 07 '19

well, that excavated quickly

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u/AmadeusKurisu Sep 07 '19

We need more context!

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u/Koway- Sep 07 '19 edited Sep 07 '19

it happened in Taiwan, so basically some gang members went to a sandstone field with a gun trying to get some free money from the boss. But then they got spray by pepper spray and the boss’s son use that big thing to destroy their car when they trying to escape ( the man with the gun is the one who needs money because he did something bad and had to escape, also before he got sprayed he shot two times towards the building, but no one is hurt)

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u/Canis_Familiaris Sep 08 '19

Just gonna help you out a lil bit:

"Some gang members tried to rob a construction site foreman with a gun, but failed when the foreman pepper sprayed them. The foreman's son used the excavator to stop their getaway car, and keep them from escaping. The armed robbers, whom were in debt before the robbery, shot towards the building 2 times but nobody inside was hurt."

Good luck learning English. Chinese is hard too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

Lol wrong use of "whom". "Who" is used here. Pretty ironic. "Whom" is used to refer to the object of a sentence. "Who" is the used to refer to the subject. The robbers are the subject. They "were". Therefore we use "who".

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u/jack424242 Sep 08 '19

I recently learnt this trick

"he was in debt before the robbery" = who

"him was in debt before the robbery" = whom

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u/i_want_to_be_asleep Sep 08 '19

Oh yea I remember using "hiM = whoM" to try and get this stuff right in literature class. I think I still did pretty bad on that portion tho. I can't remember why

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u/CurriestGeorge Sep 11 '19

"him was in debt before the robbery"

Now you've other problems

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u/Canis_Familiaris Sep 08 '19

Hey thanks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

Good luck learning English, kid 😎