It's important to get this one right, especially for a work email.
Simple grammar
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There’s nothing quite as enlightening as a good grammar lesson. Also reassuring that people still care about their apostrophes.
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Splinter
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How is your adverb literacy?
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I got 5 of 7 Adverbs are not my specialty, even though we use them everyday!!!!!
My Wife was helping!!!!!
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Although these different categories of adverbs make sense, I really don’t think we learned anything about TYPES of adverbs. And grammar was raised to an art form among the nuns I had in grade school.
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I read question 1 and gave up....
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OK, let’s try verbs! Want to make your 5th grade teacher proud?
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Here’s a very short check of basic grammar. Everyone here could have made 100% when we were in 6th grade. Can we still do that?
Will You Sail or Stumble On These Grammar Questions?Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck!www.dictionary.com -
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7/7
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I cheated!!!!!
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No beer for me...5/7.
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7/7
Smart arse!!
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Smart arse!!
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Today: who, whom, who’s, whose
The simple answer is this:
Who - Subject (nominative)
Whom - object/indirect object (objective)
Whose - possessive
Who’s - a contraction of “who is / who was”
Who saw whose dog running loose? Who’s going to report it, and to whom?
The more complete thought is that “whom” can NEVER be used in the nominative case. Because complex sentences can be confusing, people have a tendency to use ‘whom’ awkwardly and incorrectly, so accepted usage has changed to allow ‘who’ in almost all cases, instead of ‘whom.’
In short, when in doubt, use ‘who.’
The confusion between ‘who’s’ and ‘whose’ is even easier to work out: ‘Who’s’ Is not a possessive, but a contraction of two words, who + is (or was). The apostrophe indicates not possession, but letters missing from the two words, as in “What’s for dinner?”
‘Whose,’ on the other hand, is the possessive form.
Who’s making the spaghetti tonight ? And whose cat died for the meat sauce?
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Here’s an example of a wrong use of “whom,” in an opinion piece in the NYTimes today:
“Late in life I discovered that great thinkers and scientists — whom you’d think are the most rational among us — are no better than the rest of us at facing wild problems.”
In this case, ‘whom’ is incorrectly used as the subject of the verb ‘are.’ Had the writer deconstructed his own sentence, omitting the more or less parenthetical ‘you’d think,’ he would have seen that the subordinate clause is ‘who are the most rational among us, and thus requires nominative, not objective, case. WHO, not WHOM. Instead, he wrongly thought that ‘who’ was the object of ‘you’d think.’
Does this help, Splinter ?
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English is sometimes like a foreign language to me.
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We noticed.
Grabs coat...
Whose coat? Or should it be who's?
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