Please, is this phrase correct?
- Please, send this presentation to whose you think it is important to.
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In addition to Dustin's good suggestion, you could also replace "whose" with "whomever," a relative pronoun that is singular but implies all those hypothetical people who may think the presentation is important (as opposed to just one person implied by "someone"):
"Send this presentation to whomever you think it is important to."
*Note, for formal writing you may want to rewrite the sentence so that it doesn't end in a preposition (i.e. "to"). In English, ending a sentence with a preposition is grammatically correct but somewhat informal. So an example of more formal writing would be:
"Send this presentation to whomever you think would consider it important."
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Hi Marcelo,
Question: Is this phrase correct?
Answer: The phrase has some grammatical issues, so it is not correct. The problem is that "whose" is not typically used in this way in English. "Whose" is a determiner.
Example 1: Whose dancing shoes are these?
Example 2: Jonny, whose wife plays baseball with me, thinks sports are a waste of time.
* Whose is used to show association or belonging.
Suggestion: Change "whose" with a noun/pronoun like "someone".
Example: Send this presentation to someone you think it is important to.
I hope this helped!
-Dustin
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