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Who and whom

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0 Hello Guest, 02br 02br 00Very basically, pronouns have 2 forms in english - subject and object. g. 01b 00I02b 00 like cats00.....

— Abbie1948

  • 0 Hello Guest, 02br 02br 00Very basically, pronouns have 2 forms in english - subject and object.
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  • 01b 00I02b 00 like cats00.....
  • object 02br 02br 00This is the person 01b 00who02b 00 likes cats.....
  • subject 02br 02br 00This is the person 01b 00whom02b 00 cats dislike 0-
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0 Hello Guest, 02br
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00Very basically, pronouns have 2 forms in english - subject and object. 02br
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00e.g. 01b00I02b00 like cats00..... - subject 02br
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00 cats don't like 01b00me02b00 ......object 02br
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00This is the person 01b00who02
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0 As Albert Einstein said, "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." 02br
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00In modern English, 'who' is both a subject and an object form. Basically, Kontum, you can use 'who' for 'whom' in most all situations. The one major exception is when a pronoun is fronted in relative clauses. 02br
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00The boy, to whom the trophy was given,
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0 Hi JTT, haven't seen you for a couple of days. Been busy? It's some sort of special week in Japan isn't it? 0-
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0 Hi Abbie. Been a bit busy. As to the special week, yup, it's Golden Week. Yesterday, I saw the most incredible maze created out of cardboard boxes, and it all fit in the size of one classroom. Amazing! 0-
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0 Golden week? what's that? 0-
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0 These three sites will fill you in much better than I could, Abbie. 02br
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