Comments on: who/whom

By: betshy

betshy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:35:07 +0000

Great material! thanks

By: pdgcss

pdgcss — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:05:39 +0000

Regarding the preposition rule: British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill is supposed to have written, “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

By: grammar freak

grammar freak — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:56:14 +0000

I would like to emphasize a rule. One should not use a preposition at the end of a sentence.

Incorrect:
Who are you talking about?

Correct:
About whom are you talking?

By: Rachel V

Rachel V — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:22:25 +0000

Caroline: It would be incorrect to say “them” if you were saying “them shoes”; in that case, the correction phrasing would be “those shoes” because “those” is serving the function of a demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those). But using “those” by itself doesn’t seem incorrect to me because it’s just a demonstrative pronoun.

http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Determiners/Demonstratives_That_This_Those_These.htm

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:54:44 +0000

Do you have any hints about “those” vs “them”?

If my children say, “I like them” it sounds wrong to me and I want to tell them that they should say, “I like those”. However, if you had a situation where nobody liked, say, a pair of shoes, you could end up saying, “You may not like them, but I like them”. In this case you wouldn’t say, “but I like those”.

So… is it just that you use “those” when you are specifying which pair of shoes, and “them” otherwise?

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:51:27 +0000

Great clarification of who and whom, thanks.

By: jackie gear

jackie gear — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:43:36 +0000

Is it correct or incorrect to say:-

‘she did it’. If the person is present, or is it more correct and polite to say ‘ Liz dit it’ etc.