In Numbers^x, Pronouns^x, Whom^x

isn't = is not However, in modern English a negation ( not, n't ), can only be moved to the left of the subject if it is expressed as n't . It must stay to the right of the subject if it is expressed as not . It is. It is not. It isn't. Is it? Is it not? Isn't it? So...

I think this would be impossible to distinguish the difference when speaking not writing. If I said: Two men who I had never seen before came into the office , who would know if I used the comma or not and how to interpret it? So in your opinion Kooyeen I can write: Two men I had...

I don't think the number of jackets or men is important when considering relative clauses.

Anonymous wrote: Which is correct: 1-You can't be impolite to someone whose surgeon is John. 2-You can't be impolite to someone whose surgeon is me. 3-You can't be impolite to someone of whom John is the surgeon. 4-You can't be impolite to someone of whom I am the surgeon . ...

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should be observed. Following it, the 'da' in 'data'...

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....

Just because we have object him/them does not mean that "the corresponding interrogative or relative pronoun", must be used. True. So true, particularly because of the "must". But in the context of a student question implicitly asking "What's all the fuss about 'who' and 'whom'?" I...

cbakumar, You are correct. Who - subject. Whom - object. I went to the market with them. Them is an object. Your sentence takes the same form except, you moved have replaced "them"with "whom" and moved it toward the front of the phrase. ...,with whom (except your mother) I went...

I dont use the word nominative case , but the ideas is the same in terms of personal pronouns: subject case / object case I / me you you (this word is so overused) he, she, it / him, her, it we / us you / you (see - the same regardless of number OR case!) they / them -- who /...