By Whom, Relative 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: 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: 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: "Which picture of who(m) did you like?"

Steve S. wrote:However, I cannot provide a grammatical explanation as to why they sound ungrammatical. I'm looking for a grammatical explanation.In the grammatical terminology and usage I am familiar with, which and whom are either interrogative pronouns or relative pronouns. In the sentences...

Re: of which / on which / for whcih / in which .....

Cool Breeze wrote: Anonymous wrote:There were too many people waiting in the queue, some of whom looked like Italian.Can I simply write 'some of them' looked like Italian? Since I don't know who Anonymous is and whether he'll be back at all, I'll give you my answer. First of all, looked like...

Re: of which / on which / for whcih / in which .....

Anonymous wrote:There were too many people waiting in the queue, some of whom looked like Italian.Can I simply write 'some of them' looked like Italian? Since I don't know who Anonymous is and whether he'll be back at all, I'll give you my answer. First of all, looked like Italian is wrong...

Re: basic "who" and "whom" differentiation

Hello Anon, 1. The person who they think perpetrated the crime is not him. 2. Ply the same until they find someone whom they think has the other half. In #1 you're correct: "who" is the subject of "perpetrated". In #2, however, the relative pronoun is the subject, not the object, of "has",...