1. Can you tell me who her sister is? (Her sister is Mary)Mary is object. I supposed that it should be whom. I don't know why it should be whom. It shouldn't be "whom." This is a being verb ("is"), and it doesn't

I guess that's an oversimplification. A group, men, women, or mixed, is often addressed as "guys." "You guys have been terrific!" The expletive "man" is used in speaking to a woman: "Man, I'm really

Hi, berkeley, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums. I understand the usage of "you and I." E.g. "Andrea and I will eat tonight." I also understand that you can say "They yelled at Andrea and me."

It is not correct, as asserted above, that extending the nominative from singular to plural automatically necessitates an equivalent change to a related genititive; it depends on the context. Is one talking of one person's life or a plurality

onetitfemme schrieb: Well, yes it might be. Even though I am more of a tech monkey I am a very well read ... "someone" or "you may enter", when you mean "anyone" ... .. This is kind of what I am looking for You are

Hello I see we have some Old English cognoscenti in this forum so I wondered if someone could confirm or ... the case that lazy (or rapid) speech gave rise to contractions which were then taken up in the written word? The possessive apostrophe

Does one say: (i) Even if it WERE true... or (ii) Even it WAS true... Either is acceptable. Traditionally, a supposition following "if" used the subjunctive form "were", but "was" is now more commonly used. Also, Does

...for some value of "the literature." See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001133.html#more, about halfway down in the discussion of the "Retart Zone". The entire article, both parts, is well worth reading.

What do you mean "either is acceptable in the objective case"? Only whom is in the objective case. Who is nominative, same as "he, she, we, they". Whom is accusative, ame as "him, her, us, them". So use who when you

so , when did ' them ' begin being around , then ? "Them" was the objective form (originally the dative) of the 3p pronoun in the northern dialects from the time of the Danelaw or thereabouts, late 800s and early 900s. The