May 21, 2012 at 16:28. – ♦. They are the books of our students is right thugh cumbersome; *. is not used, largely because anyone formal enough to use. in your last answers is both grammatical and idiomatic, though optional. As a point of logic, it might be taken as * I am talking to to our students, but not in the real world. 1. You should speak to Peter ____ is responsible for company relations abroad. who. whose. whom. Use 'who' or 'that' for relative pronouns referring to people and are the subject of a defining relative clause. 2. Smith House, _____ was built in 1756, is an important local monument. that. Whose refers to ownership. Whose dictionary is this? I don't know whose coat this is. There's the girl whose car was stolen. The student whose article was published received a prize. Whom: When who is the object of a verb, whom can be used instead, but it is formal and rather old-fashioned. In modern speech, we use who, or we leave out the 4. @BEBYGONES google ngrams does show "by whom" as more common than "by who" even in the fiction corpus (which is likely to be more idiomatic than non-fiction) although the gap has closed enormously over the past century. I tried a similar comparison for "who is it by", "who's it by" and "whom is it by", but the latter had too few hits to The Rule for Using Commas with "Which" and "Who". When the information provided by the clause starting with "which" or "who" is required to define the person (or thing), then there are no commas. If the clause provides just additional information, then use commas. When it comes to linking verbs, you should always use who, not whom. But with an action verb, like hit, it would be correct to use whom. For example, Whom did Alex hit with the rock? Here, the subject of the verb is Alex, and whom is the object. This a correct use of whom. The use of relative clauses should be considered when using who, whom, and whose. When replacing the relative pronoun for the word “whom” you are replacing a human object. This is not a common but it is something to remember for later use. We are looking at her. She is playing piano. The woman at whom we are looking at is playing the piano. Sxwh.

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