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To whom it may concern meaning software#

Well, I'd think they would have the software that would have automatically inserted your name appropriately in the salutation, especially since the letter is confirming funding.This is not just an ordinary English to Tamil dictionary & Tamil to English dictionary. I received a letter of confirmation for funding from an English native speaker. But that version might seem to sound a bit formal for some situations or purposes, for some speakers or institutions.)Īnyway, if I had received a salutation like that in a letter, I probably wouldn't have noticed it. (ASIDE: Although, it is true that the salutation "To whom it may concern" is a grammatical and traditional way of doing it. And version #2 might have been considered to be too "non-standard" looking, or else the writer might have been afraid that the reader might consider that form to be too non-standard and unacceptable for a salutation. Versions #1 and 3 may have been thought to be too formal or stiff sounding (to the speaker/writer). There's related info in the 2002 reference grammar CGEL, pages 1074-6.)Īlso, the decision to use that form of salutation:Ĭould have been arrived at as a preference over the various other possibilities:

To whom it may concern meaning free#

(Though, the verb "concern" might not actually be considered to be a member of the small set of allowable verbs, such as " choose, like, please, want, wish", which would be interpreted as if having a causal complement when used in a free choice construction - and so, perhaps this salutation can't involve a free choice construction. Just something to think about, if one is interested in the grammaticality of that salutation.

"To whoever/whomever/who/whom it may concern,"Īnd the version originally used by the letter writer is one of those,.

And so, the salutation perhaps ought to be:īut if the writer had truly intended to use the free choice meaning of To anyone whom it may concern, then, in a free choice construction, more forms might be possible: So, if would seem that this fused relative should be using "whomever", not "whoever". I feel confident that she will continue to succeed in her studies. I would like to take this opportunity to recommend Hannah for your graduate program.

She has been a tremendous student and an asset to our school. (The two case requirements: the matrix preposition "to" wants the accusative "whom", while the relative clause also wants the accusative "whom".) To Whom It May Concern: As the Dean of Stonewell College, I have had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Smith for the last four years. Often, for a fused relative, there are conflicting case requirements imposed by the matrix and the relative, but here, there is no conflict. (Note the difference between the meaning of "the person who(m)" and the free choice meaning of "anyone who(m)".) Though, I'd think that the letter was meant to be read by a specific person, and so, the free choice argument here might be considered to be kinda moot, maybe.īut the argument for the use of a fused relative seems to be strong, where it would have the meaning: "This letter is to the person whom it may concern". Then the salutation might be considered to be an ellipted form of something like "This letter is to whoever it may concern". There might even be a reasonable argument that the fused relative is being used in a free choice construction that would be equivalent in meaning to: To anyone whom it may concern. It sounds natural to my ear, and it seems to be the speaker's attempt to use a fused relative in the salutation in a not-too-formal of a tone. Actually, I like that expression "To whoever it may concern".