By Nominative, Relative pronouns

There is also an excellent discussion on the usage of Who and Whom provided by American Heritage Dictionary: Usage Note: The traditional rules that determine the use of who and whom are relatively simple: who is used for a grammatical subject, where a nominative pronoun such as I or he would be...

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...

May I jump in between you two? Normally nominative relative pronouns cannot be omitted while objective ones can. But, when there are inserted clauses within the relative clauses, they can be left out. The inserted caluses usually accompany the vers like: say, feel, think, believe, claim, know,...

Who as an interrogative pronoun has three cases: who, whom and whose. They exclusively refer to people: Hey, who ate my poptart? I know not for whom this letter was sent. Whose hundred-dollar-bill is this? If the interrogative pronoun replaces the subject of the sentence, use the nominative...

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: nominative form. "The student who failed the test was...