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Whom is a relative or interrogative pronoun Nitharsan the objective form of who Use whom as an object of a preposition With whom are you attending the concert May I ask to whom I am speaking A general is the military officer under whom all other ranks serve Or use whom as the object of a verb...

1 Worse is the comparative of bad while worst is the superlative bad worse the worst His new movie is worse than his last Your cooking is getting worse compared to before Among his movies the newest one is the worst This is the worst of all 2 I m reproducing Taiwandave s post in its entirety The...

cast can be considered as either a noun or a verb There is a sentence like this To qualify candidates must get at least 10 of the votes cast There is no context so I wonder whether the word cast here is a verb of past participle or a noun Thanks for any information considering this question

campaign stop a stop at one place or another usually a city made by a candidate in a political campaign in order to campaign i e in order to give speeches to urge those in the crowd to vote for him Note that campaign can be a noun or a verb or a noun used as an adjective

Verbs with predicative compliments A X without the article role the role title occupation of X 1 bishop 2 as bishop 3 to be bishop B an X with the article individual a person who is an X a person who is one of any number of X s 1 a bishop 2 as a bishop 3 to be a bishop When the noun can be...

The word dated is defined in many dictionaries e g MW Oxford Cambridge American Heritage as Main Entry dat ed Function adjective 1 provided with a date 2 OUTMODED OLD FASHIONED dat ed ly adverb dat ed ness noun Following usage illustrates meaning 2 The article is slightly dated That book is dated...

Data It s an interesting question I saw two usage notes From GuruNet com Let s go through them USAGE NOTE The word data is the plural of Latin datum something given but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English The plural usage is still common as this headline from the New York Times...

stump verb To traverse a district making political speeches e g a candidate stumping the state stump noun A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory e g candidates out on the stump

Dave I can understand the fact that you find this book you ve discovered fascinating It is difficult for me though to discuss grammar and or linguistics in depth with you In my opinion it is one thing to favour a certain approach to a topic after you have considered several different approaches...

Miriam Many thanks for your thoughtful expansion of Pem s analysis I ll first address the specific questions you ve raised then re state more thoroughly the case which the Cambridge book is making for the gerund s redefinition Consider the following two sentences 1 I can t stand your being here 2...