Anonymous  +  732415 Sat, 16 May 09 06:54 AM In the sentence, "Most of us are writing about someone whom we admire."   Can you please help me identify the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives?   I get:   Most-pronoun us-pronoun someone-adjective whom-pronoun   i'm guessing whom is a relative pronoun by deduction. what exactly is a relative pronoun? i know it has to do with subordinate clauses but that part isn't until later. Anonymous Clauses, Nouns, Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Whom, Adjectives, Writing, Sentences

	Mr Wordy  +  733383 Sat, 16 May 09 06:42 PM Anonymous “ I get:   Most-pronoun us-pronoun someone-adjective whom-pronoun ”   I agree except for "someone" which is a pronoun.   Anonymous “i'm guessing whom is a relative pronoun by deduction. what exactly is a relative pronoun? ”   I agree.     See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/645/01/ Mr Wordy Joined on Tue, May 27 2008 Senior Member 2,359 Native British English speaker Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Whom, Adjectives, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

	Mr Wordy  +  733591 Sat, 16 May 09 10:06 PM Anonymous “so you can have two pronouns back to back?”   Well, you could say "... writing about the man whom I admire", where "man" is a noun and "whom" is a relative pronoun, and I don't see any fundamental difference with "someone" being a pronoun in "... someone whom we admire".   Anonymous “is that considered a pronoun phrase?”   It seems reasonable to me to call "... someone whom we admire" a pronoun phrase, but I'm not 100 sure about the terminology here. Mr Wordy Nouns, Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Whom