By Contractions, Whom

it should also be 'who's got his pants', not whose! you use 'who's' as a contraction of 'who has' or 'who is', and you use 'whose' as a possesive form of who ("to whom do these pants belong?" = "whose pants are these?") BL x

Anon, Ok, I see you are a brave soul, making such a bold statement hiding behind an empty entity “Anonymous” calling people “ignorant”. Well, I tell you what, I think I have a couple of shots left in the barrel and I’d like you to have it. First, I am not sure what credential you have giving...

Yes, I'll and we'll are contractions of I shall and we shall. Yes, teaching whom does irritate me a little but it's not tested as much so minor irritation only. I accept and use shall in my own conversations and writing but then I learned my grammar when you couldn't end a sentence with a...

Moijelesuis wrote:technically, the sentence should be phrased "with whom is he going out?", This is not a technical issue. It is an issue of antiquity. Some people still believe that the antiquated and outdated whom is still "techically" superior to actual and ubiquitous usage seen...

Hello Sanz The contraction "Mrs" relates to "mistress" in the now obsolete sense of the female head of a household (cf. master). "Mrs" was also used as a courtesy title for unmarried women in the 17th and 18th centuries. The pronunciation "missis" presumably distinguishes "Mrs" from "mistress"...

Hi Happy, This area is a very contentious one, so it is not surprising that you find different pronouncements within and between grammar books. Here is my opinion on the examples you present: (1) 'Who did it ?' Not I.' The pronoun stands in parallel to the subject 'who', and is a shortened...