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Is this correct grammar?

"The Wall was built by over one million peasants, prisoners and soldiers, thousands of whom died in the process." Or should I say, "thousands of which"?

Update:

wow qwadaqwas (or whatever the heck your name is). Actually, you're wrong, because all one million did not die. Go annoy someone else.

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    'Thousands of whom' is the correct grammar.

    :)

  • jerryb
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    leave of whom out.

    "The Wall was built by over one million peasants, prisoners and soldiers, thousands died in the process."

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe the way it should go is this "The wall was built by over one million peasants, prisoners, and soliders; thousands of whom died in the process"

  • 1 decade ago

    "The Wall was built by over one million peasants, prisoners, and soldiers; thousands of whom died in the process."

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  • 1 decade ago

    no, stop being stupid

    "the wall was built by over 1 million peasants, prisoners, and soldiers who died in the process."

    even a 4 year old could do that.

    oh wait-

    let me dumb down the sentence

    "the wall was built."

    understand it now?

    Source(s): im a genius.
  • 1 decade ago

    The way you have it is correct. When you are talking about people, you say who or whom. When you are referring to anything else, you say that or which.

  • 1 decade ago

    You're right, it's thousands of "whom", because you're referring to people.

    It would be "which" if you were referring to something else. "Which" also includes animals as well as non-living things.

  • thousands of whom is correct

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no ur right casue it is refering to a person or people "whom" do/did something

  • 1 decade ago

    deffinatley "whom" :)

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