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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Who or wHom?

Who the charity help? <<is it formal English?

Can we say "Whom the charity help?" or "Who does the charity help?" instead? And why?

Is there any rule for how to pronounce the word e.g. which part of word need to be stressed etc.?

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Who the charity help? -- Wrong Whom the charity help? -- Wrong Who does the charity help?

— Mister Micawber

  • Who the charity help?
  • -- Wrong Whom the charity help?
  • -- Wrong Who does the charity help?
  • -- OK, but considered informal.
  • Whom does the charity help?
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Who the charity help? -- Wrong

Whom the charity help? -- Wrong

Who does the charity help? -- OK, but considered informal.

Whom does the charity help? -- OK and formallly correct.

The only word with more than one syllable here is charity. The stress falls on the first syllable: / 'cheir i ti /. There are no overall pronunci
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Thank ~~

and i have one more question.

Sometime when using the conjunction "and,but,or etc." , two clause are parallel.

For example

(1)John play football. John play basketball.

(combined) John play football and basketball <<in this case we can omit John and play.

(2)The tube has been taken.The tube has been broken.

(combined)T
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No rule is absolute in English, but I would guess that yes, any repeated words can indeed be omitted in compound sentences.
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But in the following sentence

A time not for words but (for)action << for is repeated, why we can't omit it ?
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Because the not is before the for. If you restructure the sentence slightly to correct the parallelism, you won't need the second for:

A time for not words but action.
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