I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is

Use who for the subject of the clause; use whom otherwise. This is the same as the difference between he and him . The man who came to the door was selling magazine subscriptions. ( He came to the door.) The man whom my sister married is

Summarising: Three ways of looking at it. Extracts from the Geoffrey Leech article, " />English Grammar in Conversation . View 1: Spoken English has no grammar at all: it is grammatically inchoate. (That view) ...does not need to be taken

Let's say that you want to speak everyday American English, not write a formal paper. In that case you would not go far wrong to use "whom" immediately after a preposition, "who" otherwise. Since the sentence initial position is never after a

Hello Andrei and Casi I hope you don’t mind if I answer both of you at the same time. First, to Andrei: Casi has quite rightly mentioned an oversight in my previous answer. The forms of which these are examples are often found,

Pastel, Never say "never"! There are very few verbs in English that cause such a commotion. I think my examples illustrate the most usual ones. "take" is so flexible that I included a separate section at the end with more examples. These

Malory, I don't think I can give you a response different from the one I posted to the WHO/WHOM/WHOSE thread... because that's what I know about these words! ~L~ "who" will be the subject of a clause (nominative form), while "whom" will be the

Who, whom and whose are relative pronouns. Who and whom are used for persons. They introduce relative clauses postmodifying the head of a noun phrase, and they are identical in form with interrogative pronouns but function differently. Who: