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Re: you're the only person I knew who lived here in the city.

Cal, thanks a lot for this detailed answer; it takes time for me to digest it, and I believe I will learn a lot from it. Cheers, Osee CalifJim wrote:Yes, that's it. Thanks, Clive.With regard to your BTW:You are the only person I knew lived here in the city.Short answer: No. This is not a...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Osee 1 yr 58 days ago Regards Constructions Clauses Nouns Pronouns Relative pronouns Whom
Re: you're the only person I knew who lived here in the city.

Yes, that's it. Thanks, Clive. With regard to your BTW: You are the only person I knew lived here in the city. Short answer: No. This is not a paraphrase of the original. (It doesn't mean the same thing.) ____________ Long answer: You have two relative clauses based on these...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 59 days ago Regards Constructions Clauses Nouns Pronouns Relative pronouns Whom
Re: Are these Correct sentences?

I know you are really just concerned with the useage of the bold words but I've picked up your other errors as well. You need to work on articles and determiners. 1. Tipsy : - Erwin was tipsy when he came to our house. ok. 2. Tryst : - We didn't know that they had planned a tryst in the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by nona the brit 1 yr 79 days ago Articles Verbs Nouns Whom Determiners
Re: Which sentence is right?

Vaivara wrote:While giving some advice to someone I said: ‘I don’t know how deep and far you want to go…’ meaning I didn’t know if she needed just brief definition or maybe a more in-depth article on the subject we were discussing. My son, for whom English is native tongue, said it doesn’t...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 83 days ago Articles Nouns Whom Conversational English
Re: us too

The whole conjugation (with object pronouns) is available: me too, you too, him too, her too, us too, you too, them too. But I don't think I've ever heard the interrogative, Whom too? CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 84 days ago Nouns Pronouns Whom
Re: it/ them

Hi Nona, Nona The Brit wrote:team for plural - you may not like it personally but it is accepted as grammatically correct.Accepted by whom? Can you provide a citation?A Google search returns: "team is" 12.4 million; "team are" 1.2 million; that's more than 10:1 in favour of the singular. Even...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Bokeh 1 yr 92 days ago Grammar Plurals Nouns Pronouns Whom Conditionals
Re: 1: Whom are you voting to?

1: Whom are you voting to? Incorrect!2: Whom are you voting for? Correct! Better: "For whom are you voting".3: Whom are you waiting? Incorrect! Correct: "For whom are you waiting"."Whom" is the object pronoun equivelent to the subject pronoun "who".

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Bokeh 1 yr 96 days ago Nouns Pronouns Whom
Re: Whoever/Whomever Question

'Whoever'. The pronoun takes the same case as the subject ('he') because the verb is the copula ('be').PS: 'Whom' is not quite out of date yet; people are just forgetting to say it sometimes.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 1 yr 98 days ago Verbs Dates Nouns Pronouns Whom

I can't find a source that explains what I thought I understood many years ago. The question deals with joining an adverb and an adjective with a hyphen before the noun, but not afterward: the freshly-cut lawn smells great ~ the lawn is freshly cut he is a highly-admired...

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Re: Use either "than me" or "than I am." Purists may tell you that the latt

Tanit wrote: Yoong Liat wrote: If you use a personal pronoun on its own after than, it must be an object pronoun such as 'me' or 'him.' It used to considered correct to use a subject pronoun such as 'I' or 'he', but this now sounds very old-fashoined. Actually, a professor of mine (he...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yoong Liat 1 yr 114 days ago Nouns Pronouns Whom Learning English

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