By Plurals, Whom

"Who threw the stone?" (reply) "It is one of those who are angry." I don't think "one" is the subject of anything here. It's a predicate nominative, or "complement" of the verb "is." "It" is the subject of the sentence, and...

Speaking as an American teenager:Girls will say "I went out with my girlfriends" (meaning friends who are girls), "I went out with my boyfriend" (meaning a boy whom they are dating), or, at least with teenagers, "I went out with my guy friend" (referring to a boy who...

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

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 date...

whose/whom - do you know the difference between his and him? Why don't you write a couple sentences in which you try to use them. someone/some person - how would you like to use "some person"? It's more common to use "someone." other person/people - person is...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentences below correct in terms of the use of preposition and so on in italic? Preposition Neither Amy nor her sisters like to do ironing every week. He is like his mother He is always like that Besides working at the restaurant, he also works at the...

Anonymous wrote:And I am still not sure whether I can use the above 'pattern' for plural pronouns? ("It was/were? we/they who..." and the second one - with 'whom').Yes, don't use the plural:It was they/them who received...It was we/us who received...I included "they" and "we" in the above...

Thank you, Mister Micawber, now the point is clear.By the way, this was why I asked the question: http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/saraWeb?qy=it+was+me+whoAnd I am still not sure whether I can use the above 'pattern' for plural pronouns? ("It was/were? we/they who..." and the second one -...

Numerous too weak a word - more than numerous literary works have been created since stories first began to be written down. Though the number of literary works is endless not exactly endless - it's a finite number, works of fiction are often more popular among young readers. Are the works of...

Cherrypie10 wrote:I can’t think of a better site name before so I’ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs. Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs, they're the oldest so they're the one whom I love the most.Is that correct? A semicolon keeps it from being a "run-on"...