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. ___ Generally speaking, if the word who or whom is required as the first word of a relative clause, 1) use who if a verb immediately follows, and 2) use whom if a noun or pronoun (the subject of the clause) immediately follows. 1) who + Verb Give it to anyone who wants it. Subject (of the...

Hi Mad, With this scant context, it could be taken either way. It's pretty confusing. "Friends" is plural. Was she paired with one particular guy? Whom is she talking to? Her date?? "Felt" is past tense, but "is" is present tense. Is she still on the...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object ...

'Whoever'. The pronoun takes the same case as the subject ('he') because the verb is the copula ('be'). PS: 'Whom' is not quite out of date yet; people are just forgetting to say it sometimes.

Grammar Geek wrote: Let's see what other people think. Which of the following are acceptable? Which are outright wrong? Situation one: Of all the nice young ladies we just met, which would be good candidates to join our Tea and Cupcake Society? Correct, as an interrogative pronoun, which is...

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...

In modern English, 'who' works as both a subject and an object. ++ http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html The first story was a nonpartisan analysis of supposed pronoun case errors made by the two candidates in the 1992 US presidential election....

Hello. I'm a little bit puzzled with some relatives pronouns, when they don't go and when the preposition is used at the end, so I made myself some transformations that I'd like you to check, I don't know if they are correct: Those are the girls I told you about. Those are the girls about...

Hello CJ and Mr P She me the job. You show indeed nice evidences against the hypothesis! But among them 'offer' was nearly 'pure' English. Its use (in the form of 'offrian') dates back to as far as 825. On the other hand 'guarantee' was imported as a noun and its use as a verb started not...

'Whom' is a relative or interrogative pronoun, Nitharsan, the objective form of 'who'. Use 'whom' as an object of a preposition : 'With whom are you attending the concert?' 'May I ask to whom I am speaking?' 'A general is the military officer under whom all other ranks serve.' Or, use...