Totally off Topic(s): Can anyone Help with a Grammatical Question?
Nothing to do with politics, so I will hardly be piqued should it get deleted. But..
Anyone want to give me the quick and easy guide as to where one should properly use 'who' and where one should use 'whom?'
Robert
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your welcome
September 18, 2008 12:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lol. That would be "you're welcome." Just for the record.
September 18, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is sooooo one of my pet peeves! LOL more!
September 18, 2008 1:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
just for the record i r suck at grammer, and i googled whom to get that website, and why type youre when your is faster, and yes i know youre is wrong as well, and i know that what iam typeing atm has many of grammer errors on it, and me thinks the grammer correction was unneccaery. Just for the record though, I didn't mind the grammar correction.
September 18, 2008 1:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree holeheartedly. Aye mean, why are the grammar police so hostel awl the thyme? They must knot have a humerus bone in theyre body.
Its knot like wright grammar ads any value too the conversation. It doesn't aide me when I'm righting.
Are they trying to insight a riot or something? Who nose. But I do no that its annoying.
September 18, 2008 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
"They must knot have a humerus bone in theyre body."
Nice intentional malaprop--LOL!
September 18, 2008 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Who" is a nominative pronoun, used in the subject spot in a sentence. (where you would use "I" or "HE"), e.g., Who want to go to the game. Who ate the pizza?
Sometimes the subject pronoun is in a "dependent clause."
She saw her friend, who worked at the bank.
She saw her friend who worked at the bank.
"Whom" is an objective case pronoun--like "me" or "him." Use it for:
1. Direct objects. Joe saw me? Joe saw whom?
2. Objects of prepositions: You gave the car to whom?
In a dependent clause, check to make sure who/whom is actually the subject: I called the teacher, whom I had not met.
("I" is the subject; "whom" is the object).
Examples:
To whom it may concern: It's "whom" because it is the object of the preposition.
To whom do you wish to speak?
I saw the man who wrecked the car.
I saw the man, whom Sally saw wreck the car.
The other useful "rule" is to use who/whom for people, and "that" for things.
September 18, 2008 2:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who wants to go to the game?
The rules don't help when I don't take time to proofread...sorry.
September 18, 2008 2:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
"The other useful "rule" is to use who/whom for people, and "that" for things."
This is a most important rule. A person is not an (inanimate) "that".
September 18, 2008 6:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, thanks for the advice all, as well as the witty comments. ;-)
Robert
September 18, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink