By Whom, American English

The distinction between "who" and "whom" has significantly eroded in American English. But if you really want to know, the following are correct: Whom shall I say is calling? Whom did you talk to? "Whom" is used when it is the object of the verb. In an interrogative sentence, identifying the...

I'll try to give a partial answer. A relative clause is a portion of a sentence that adds information about a previous noun in the sentence. The previous noun is called the antecedent. Relative clauses are marked by relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, and others. Examples will...

In American English, ' who ' instead of ' whom ' do you live with is considered correct. ' Whom ' is going to phase out over time. Fewer and fewer people use it nowadays.

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...