• GojuRyu@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    Non native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?

    • e_chao@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      I think you’re right. The clause should actually be something like “disclose to my students the gender of my spouse.” How does that sound?

    • Ginny [they/she]
      1·
      3 months ago

      Either a comma or parentheses are what would make the difference.

      I will tell the students whom I married.

      Now the students know who was at your wedding.

      I will tell the students, whom I married.

      I will tell the students (whom I married).

      You’re only telling something to the students that you married.