By Inflections, Whom

Swiss Jake wrote: Do you actually say whom when you speak/talk? Your is it just a formal thing which is used in writing? Another opinion, to add to your collection: I never use "whom" in speech, except in parody; in written English, I use it after prepositions (by whom, for whom). I live...

Hello Swiss Jake, Are you a German-speaking Swiss? If yes, then this should help a bit: 'Whom' is used in the accusative case, which is very obvious in German inflections but only seen in English prounouns, e.g. him, her, us, and whom. However, where in German there are two distinctive...

Hi MrP Yeah I agree to your view that the double objects construction had been established when case inflection was still retained English. I guess you are rather special in linguistic sense. I'm a little doubtful of common English speakers in the sense of differentiating objects into dative and...