Who(m) does that car belong to?

[T_H_Lawrence]

In my opinion it should read thus:

Excuse me but shouldn't you say to whom that car belongs?
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Anglophile

[Beeesneees]

Hi T H Lawrence,

If you simplify the sentence by removing the first phrase and just leaving the opinion of what should (or shouldn't) be said, you are left with these:
'To whom does that car belong?'
'To whom that car belongs?'

Set out like that, it should be easy for someone as adept at the language as you are to see that the first is correct.
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Cheers m' dears!

[T_H_Lawrence]

Thank you, Bev. By the way, I see that our Alan and Torsten are silent on my posts these days. Could you answer my posts on "MEDIA - singular or plural or both?" and on "Do the comma and the relative pronoun make the difference in number?"?
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Anglophile

[Beeesneees]

Please provide links, though I cannot promise to look. I don't see every post written these days. I don't have time to look through them all.
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Cheers m' dears!

[T_H_Lawrence]