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Vushcm Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Who vs. whom
Hello,
Please explain which sentence below is correct. If two or more sentences are correct, which one would you suggest that I should use and under what conditions? In case you think there is a better way to structure the sentence, please show me. Thank you in advance.
1. Possessive adjectives tell who someone or something belongs to.
2. Possessive adjectives tell whom someone or something belongs to.
3. Possessive adjectives tell to whom someone or something belongs.
4. Possessive adjectives tell us to whom someone or something belongs.
5. Possessive adjectives tell 'who soneone or something belongs to'.
6. Possessive adjectives tell 'whom someone or something belongs to'.
7. Posessive adjectives tell 'to whom someone or something belongs'.
8. Possessive adjectives tell us who owns someone or something.
VUSHCM
Please explain which sentence below is correct. If two or more sentences are correct, which one would you suggest that I should use and under what conditions? In case you think there is a better way to structure the sentence, please show me. Thank you in advance.
1. Possessive adjectives tell who someone or something belongs to.
2. Possessive adjectives tell whom someone or something belongs to.
3. Possessive adjectives tell to whom someone or something belongs.
4. Possessive adjectives tell us to whom someone or something belongs.
5. Possessive adjectives tell 'who soneone or something belongs to'.
6. Possessive adjectives tell 'whom someone or something belongs to'.
7. Posessive adjectives tell 'to whom someone or something belongs'.
8. Possessive adjectives tell us who owns someone or something.
VUSHCM
Top answer
If you want to use tell , it's a good idea to have an indirect object after it. The following are grammatical but the first one is not often used in conversational English: vushcm 4. Possessive adjectives tell us to whom someone or something belongs.
- If you want to use tell , it's a good idea to have an indirect object after it.
- The following are grammatical but the first one is not often used in conversational English: vushcm 4.
- Possessive adjectives tell us to whom someone or something belongs.
- vushcm 8.
- Possessive adjectives tell us who owns someone or something.
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If you want to use tell, it's a good idea to have an indirect object after it. The following are grammatical but the first one is not often used in conversational English:
vushcm4. Possessive adjectives tell us to whom someone or something belongs.
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Thank you, Cool_Breeze!
So #4 is correctly structured and socially acceptable. Let's add another sentence.
#9. Possessive adjectives tell us who someone or something belongs to.
Would you prefer #4 to #9? And please tell me the reason you prefer one to the other.
Again, thank you.
VUSHCM
So #4 is correctly structured and socially acceptable. Let's add another sentence.
#9. Possessive adjectives tell us who someone or something belongs to.
Would you prefer #4 to #9? And please tell me the reason you prefer one to the other.
Again, thank you.
VUSHCM
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vushcmWould you prefer #4 to #9? And please tell me the reason you prefer one to the other.I'm not sure I can say I prefer either one. Both are good English. In spoken English the preposition is usually at the end and putting it before the relative pronoun is quite formal. I get the impression you want to know the corr
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