Explain who/whom to me

[FaRaN]

I'm Dutch, and nobody in a close distance to me knows when to apply one of them.
I know I got this in highschool, but I just forgot.
Please tell me so I can sleep again!

In case it's a hardware problem, my signature:

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[cjolley]

Who want's to know?
And, Whom do they want to ask?
chuck

PS My wife has an MA in English, I'll ask her for a definitive definition tonight.

[SCompRacer]

Guess who?

Hey you! To whom are you referring?

Whose the idiot that left the barn door open?
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Tune in next week, and we will cover the use of can and may.

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[Gurm]

Scomp:

That would be who's, not whose.

Whose cookies are on the counter?

Who's gone and left the meat out to rot?

Who knocked up my daughter?

To whom shall I send this mail-bomb?

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Paddy]

even i know that!

[SCompRacer]

Whose grammar book are you using?

[Paddy]

who's = who is

[SCompRacer]

whose = who is? no?
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Oh, whose = belonging to! I get it know! If I didn't now you, I would think you were messing with me.

Oh well, two out of three are not bad.



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[Paddy]

'know' as in to know your mother?

[Paddy]

or now as in this moment?

[SCompRacer]

What? No, I know now, or now I know?
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OK, I will quit screwing around now.



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[Jorden]

Leuk gedaan FaRaN

Whoever can tell whodunnit, whoa!
To whom it concerns: I didn't knock her up, Jason
Now, I don't know who knows, but knowing you it's difficult to say who knew, if even there's something new to know about it or not now.

Jord.

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[FaRaN]

So generaly whom always comes after 'to', and redirects to the subject? Please give me a rule, not examples. I can work with rules an make my own examples.

and that who/whose f*ckups early in this topic I already know,
or was it now?

[Jorden]

I think it's whom whenever you use a preposition (voorzetsel !!) in front (???)

Jord.

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[paulcs]

"Who" is used as the subject of a sentence; "whom" is the objective case of "who."

Take a look at some of the examples given:

"To whom are you refering?" "You" is performing the action that the speaker is inquiring about. The action is being performed on "whom."

"Who want's to know?" "Who" performs the action here and is therefore the subject.

"Whose" is the possessive form of "who." "Who's" is the contraction for "who is."

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

Paul
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