By Whom, Pronouns

Re: relative clause

1. The name of the man who Tom called uncle is Bobby Brown.If you rewrite "man who (subjective case) Tom called uncle", it becomes "Tom called he (subjective case) uncle". It should be "Tom called him (objective case) uncle" from the choice "man whom"; but...

Re: The difference between 'who' and 'whom'

I just joined this Forum a few days ago. I do not know what I going to tell you is still relevant. I have come across an article "Who" or "Whom" (relative pronouns), careful perusal and digestion of which may be of great help.

Re: Sound Sentence

yeah, I know about the informal usage of use as objective pronoun. But what i really want to know is: Can I say " We know who/whom you want to see singing" and "We know who/whom you want to see sing" or "We know who/whom you want to see to sing" (unlikely for the...

Re: Is it a subject relative?

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Re: which/that/who

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 never seen...

Re: which/that/who

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

Re: Help proofreading "A Doll's House"

I have underlined some problem areas: The Woman Within the Doll The Baltimore Sun wrote that back in 1879, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen “shocked and offended people wherever feet” (1031). This might have caused him to become the “half-drowned” kind of man, as he refers...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Do existed in Old English more than a thousand years ago as a regular verb and meant to cause. It is impossible to say who introduced it to English. It's use as an auxiliary in questions and negations was established in Shakespeare's day when it was correct to say bothI know not himandI...

Re: Who do you think I am?

Changing the pronoun may clarify: 2. Whom do you think me? => e.g. 3. Do you think me him? (But quite peculiar, as Philip suggests.) MrP

Re: "Which picture of who(m) did you like?"

Clive wrote:In ' Which picture . . . ?', which is an interrogative adjective.Good morning, CliveI know it is an interrogative adjective in your terminology. That term is not used here. I had never heard it before I hit EF and as I am better familiar with European terminology, I'll stick to it,...