By Word order, Whom

Can I say this rule - "Subject and Object can never come next to each other"No, because the word order is different in an indirect question: I wonder whom you are going to marry and in a relative clause: She is the woman whom you are going to marry. CJ

There are precious few relics of the Dative case remaining in Modern English. The word whom is currently in its death throes and has been for 100 years or so; and in serious (and possibly fatal) decline during the last fifty.But it must be remembered that whom is not a resident purely of the...

Hi Diddy, Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen...

Hello, Satyre, First, there's no "do" in a reported question, you use the normal word order. Then I'd say the grammatically correct form is " depending on whom you ask", but I think you'll hear the latter more and more. Someone may correct me, though... Sorry, I had forgotten the second part...

Either is fine, but the word order needs to be changed: With whom am I speaking. Whom am I speaking with.

If you know the name of the person you are addressing - e.g. if you started the letter Dear Mr... then you should end the letter Yours sincerely,... If you do not know the letter of the person you are addressing - e.g. if you started the letter Dear Sir or Madam or To Whom It May Concern, you...

Stranded prepositions, mysteriously disappearing prepositions...I'm glad you all stopped for a breather. It gave me a chance to catch up. This aspect I find interesting: 1. The lion was given | the Christian. 2. The lion was given | to the Christian. 3. The lion was given | to eating...

Hello Paco I'm interested in your comment about structural relics. I wonder whether the structure itself is the relic – i.e. in certain constructions, the word order became established at a time when the dative still existed; the inflexions were lost, gradually, but the word order remained....

Nice addition, paco. Yes. I agree, and here's my supporting evidence. (1) Bob taught (V) the students (IO) English (DO). students (learned) English (2) Bob taught (V) English (DO) to the students (IO). Bob taught English 'taught', a ditransitive verb, subcategorizes for the following...

Right, English used to ditinguish between subjects and objects by using a suffix such as Latin did, but gave up this tradition to follow an analytical structure (often: preposition + noun, noun here in a widened sense) that also required a fixed word order.