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Samerrustom Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Correct my sentences please

To whom did you give your sandwich?
With whom you went to India?
Whom should we talk with when you are absence?
Whom did he hire to do the job?
Whom played football with?
With whom played football?
With whom do you usually travel?

Whom did you play football with?
Whom did you watch a movie with?

Whom are you going to invite? OR Who are you going to invite?

Whose cell phone keeps ringing? OR whose cell phone is keep ringing?
Who gave you my mobile number?
  

Top answer

Hi I'll just mention that 'whom' is not so often heard now in day-to-day speech. " But, using 'whom', mainly, I'd favour all of these ... To whom did you give your sandwich?

  • Hi I'll just mention that 'whom' is not so often heard now in day-to-day speech.
  • " But, using 'whom', mainly, I'd favour all of these ...
  • To whom did you give your sandwich?
  • With whom did you go to India?
  • To whom should we talk when you are absent?
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Hi

I'll just mention that 'whom' is not so often heard now in day-to-day speech. Many people would be happy with "Who did you give your sandwich to?" Others would insist that the right way to say it is "To whom did you give your sandwich?"

But, using 'whom', mainly, I'd favour all of these ...

To whom did you give your sandwich?
With whom did you go to India?
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Conversational English:

Who did you give your sandwich to?
Who did you go to India with?
Who should we talk with when you are absent?
Who did he hire to do the job?
Who played football with you?
With whom did you play football?
With whom do you usually travel?

Who di
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Thank you for your assistance.

Using Whom in our daily conversation especially for non-native speaker is tough.

I would like to ask you if I can put the preposition in the beaning or at the end of the sentence:

Whom did you play football with?
With whom did you play football ?

Whom did you watch a movie with?
With Whom did yo
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I really appreciate your help.

I would like to ask you if you still using WHOM in business letter please.
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samerrustomWhom did you play football with?With whom did you play football ?Whom did you watch a movie with?With Whom did you watch a movie?
These are all correct.
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Hi

I would say that you may put the preposition at the beginning or the end, whichever seems more comfortable to you in a given sentence

Again - like the use of 'whom' itself - it is one of those things that people were far more particular about half a century or so ago: they would have said that the preposition is the word with which you should begin your sentence or clause
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Thanks Mr Dave,

I am always trying to avoid troubles in my business writing that is why I am asking to inform if I should stay away from using whom at all with my letter and formal meeting.

Regards,
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I'd like to provide me with texts about pollution, smoking , internet....
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Hi Anon

You should really post your question as a separate item in the Forum

To be provided with texts about pollution, smoking and the internet, you just have to feed those words into a search engine and hit Enter

I liked the entry from encyclopaedia.com that points out that, as far back as 1307, King Edward I banned smoking lime kilns, because they were so badly pollut

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