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06-03-2021, 09:15 PM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

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I do the same because it winds up Marge!
Is Marge posh too?
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Originally Posted by Rhian ->
Haha funny!

I used to say gatoox instead of gateaux too!
And back in my Enid Blyton schoolgirl books days they all played Laycross
and I don't even want to say how I used to pronounce Cynthia in my little Welsh head!
Cynthia in Welsh is distinctly rude.
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06-03-2021, 09:25 PM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

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I would have thought you would know by now JB, that these things only work one way.
True. Wives are never wrong. All husbands know that. It's part of our training.
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06-03-2021, 11:11 PM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Originally Posted by Artangel ->
A while back my brother in law picked me up on my use of ‘who’ and stated, l should have used, ‘whom’!

Now l avoid, any script or speech where I dither about which it should be.

Are there any words you dither on? Or, are you just perfection when it comes to the use of the English language?
How dare he it was discourteous of your BIL to do that and I would have told him so.
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06-03-2021, 11:33 PM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Seems to me, there are to many whom up merchants on the internet nowadays, or is that too many? The Big O is dead, there is no going back.
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07-03-2021, 01:01 AM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

TWO of a kind
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07-03-2021, 08:32 AM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Originally Posted by Rhian ->
Who is the subject of the sentence
Whom is the object

If you can replace the word with he or she then use "who"
If you can replace the word with him or her use "whom"


Basic English Grammar!
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07-03-2021, 08:39 AM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Should this have been titled Whom are you?

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07-03-2021, 08:49 AM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->


Basic English Grammar!

You need to be patient, it depends where a person started out, as a Brummie it took years to stop asking people "Who am Ya".
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07-03-2021, 05:25 PM
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Re: I Must Admit, l Do Have Trouble With My ‘Who’ And ‘Whom’.

Originally Posted by spitfire ->
Should this have been titled Whom are you?
IMHO, no, because it's a subject question.
 
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