By Subjunctives, Whom

Some another issues to discuss I saw your old friend, him whom you pointed out at the last meeting Him whom >> whom Objective pronoun is redundand, we need only relative pronou I really don´t know if there is a mistake in this sentenceShe flouts her mink coat whenever she goes with us so...

Anon, Ok, I see you are a brave soul, making such a bold statement hiding behind an empty entity “Anonymous” calling people “ignorant”. Well, I tell you what, I think I have a couple of shots left in the barrel and I’d like you to have it. First, I am not sure what credential you have giving...

N5pn4cya wrote:Please help clarify. Also, which one(s) of the following is/are correct: 1- I wonder if he remembers me. vs. I wonder if he remember me. (Should here be a subjunctive?) I'd say no. The sentence isn't conditional. It basically means "I want to know whether or not he...

I'm not sure if there is any prescriptive rule to what I read in a statement as follows: ...after all these years, I asked him if he remembered who I was. The sentence sounded okay to me, but I was also confused as to whether the subjunctive should be at play here and if the past tense of...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

Hi, To the end that if any bread be faulty in weight, it may be known in whom the fault is.Please mark out what mistakes are their in this sentence.To me first there is a prepositional phrase starting the sentence That's OK, and not uncommon.I don't understand why "be" (subjunctive mood) is used...

To the end that if any bread be faulty in weight, it may be known in whom the fault is.Please mark out what mistakes are their in this sentence.To me first there is a prepositional phrase starting the sentenceI don't understand why "be" (subjunctive mood) is used here. No suggestion, intention,...

Hi Jack,my try:I would not put myself in a position where I jeopardized the people working for me, or those for whom I worked, for the sake of vanity.I don't know the exact terms to refer to those words. Let's say those two "past tenses" are kind of like two "subjunctives" or "unreality past...

I would not necessarily be sad, even if I were the poorest. (However, the "if I were" usage, especially in the U.S. is not being used much. It seems to be going the way of "this is she" and "whom." For a test, use it, but in conversation, don't worry about it, at least if you're talking to an...

Every speaker? You are in a much more sophisticated crowd than I am. I'm sure many people who hear it understand it, but they certainly don't use it themselves. I used 'stuffy' to note the extreme. Those who study other languages learn about it and then recognize it in English (17 years of...