By Whom, Plurals

Re: help me solve the confusion

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...

Re: sentences correct?

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...

Re: 'It was me who...' vs. 'It was I who...'

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...

Re: 'It was me who...' vs. 'It was I who...'

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 -...

Re: Please proofread this introductory paragraph

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...

Re: Help Me

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"...

Re: yourself

There is a problem with the question, then, since both answers are possible. 'You yourself' is singular and 'you yourselves' is plural, and 'don't' is the appropriate verb for both cases.Email me (my address is in my Profile), Hanuman, and I'll send you a photo of myself if you send me a photo...

Re: Project Proposal

Attached is the draft of my Project Proposal for the ICT initiative. The process and functionalities of this project are almost the same as my previous project give the nature of the prior project, but there are differences in the type of report or types of reports? plural? , conditions for...

Re: it/ them

Hi Nona, Nona The Brit wrote:team for plural - you may not like it personally but it is accepted as grammatically correct.Accepted by whom? Can you provide a citation?A Google search returns: "team is" 12.4 million; "team are" 1.2 million; that's more than 10:1 in favour of the singular. Even...

Re: questions!!!

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 used...