Or is it “The monkey for whom I’m wondering if they can see my ears.”

or

“The monkey, regarding whom, I’m wondering if they can see my ears.”

or

“The monkey who I’m wondering if they can see my ears.”

All of them sound stupid.

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    If your wondering isn’t critical to the thought I would simplify to “the monkey who might be able to see my ears” or “can possibly see my ears”. Otherwise AbouBenAdhem has the best option, though I might also suggest “The monkey whose ability to see my ears I’m wondering about”; splitting the prepositional phrase is more strictly proper but I think it reads a little better like this.