[bannie]

I hope I didn't overstep any protocol. I'm sure most know this, but I received interest in this little trick.

If it looks too confusing, just look at "THE TRICK" part of my stuff!

[Polybius]

WHO = SUBJECTIVE
WHOM = OBJECTIVE

Subject = the "doer." Object = the "do-ee."

So, let me get this straight.

When referring to Monica Lewinski we should use "WHO" and when referring to Bill Clinton we should use "WHOM"?

[beckett]

Recently I have noticed some very good writers using "who" where "whom" should be according to the usual rules. Just yesterday Christopher Hitchens wrote something like (can't find the link) "he saw the fellow who he gave the money to" rather than "he saw the fellow to whom he gave the money."

Lots of people would like to see "whom" go the way of the dinosaurs, I think, and recently it seems editors are looking for ways to restrict usage of the word.

[Revolting cat!]

A quick quiz:

"There are a lot" or "There is a lot"?

The Wall Street Journal editor seems to think the former (yesterday's WSJ.) And so, to be consistent, should we be saying "there is many"? Heck, I can do as well (as good?) Can I have a glamourous editor job too also?

[Fifth Business]

Know any tricks for hence, thence, and whence?

[TaxRelief]

The little tongue twisted we used to chant as a reference was:

Who holds whom for whom?
For whom does who hold what?

[Psycho_Bunny]

How does this affect bunnies?

[Revolting cat!]

"Whom luvs ya, baby?!"

[Revolting cat!]

The Whom:

[Revolting cat!]

Them:

[openotherend]

Whom do you love?

[Revolting cat!]

Who-la (whom-la?):

[Spirited]

Thank you very much for giving us the benefit of learning your trick. I deeply appreciate knowing it and will enjoy passing it on to the home schooled crowd.

[Revolting cat!]

Who affects the Who's effects?

[nutmeg]

ping

[Cogadh na Sith]

To whom was this post intended?

Heh heh heh....

[Revolting cat!]

The Whooters:

[nicollo]

My kids say "This kid said..." I say, "this guy or that guy?" They don't like this business. We also go at it with "He went..." "He went where? To the store? To the bathroom?"

Eminem blew it for my with "...between you and I, females lie."
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but his grammar fails.

This thread is classic FR.

[T Minus Four]

OK, here's another one that makes me crazy, and lots of a lot of many educated folks do it - using an apostrophe in the possesive form of "it".

it is = it's
belonging to it = its

I believe it's the only possesive form that doesn't use an apostophe.

[Coleus]

Any tricks with pronouns, I,me, he, she, him, her.

[jejones]

Well done, and I hope that everyone who reads it remembers and uses it! (Now, to get people not to write "loose" when they mean "lose"...)