Schooled

[celestia414]

This morning, a group of students from the Junior High were collecting money for charity, and since they asked me so nicely, in English and everything, I pulled out my wallet and gave them the equivalent of $10 American. A little later in the day, the following conversation took place between myself and the head teacher

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[aprilisloca]

I asked about "who" vs "whom" once, and was told that "whom" is directed to a specific person. But even after knowing that.. I still not sure which one to use (>_<)

[butimaniceguy]

The rule, as I've learned it, is that "who" corresponds to "s/he," while "whom" corresponds to "him/her."

Basically take a look at the sentence you are writing and see which one you would re-write it as. For example "To whom it may concern" would become "It may concern him/her that..." and the answer to "who let the dogs out?" would be "s/he let the dogs out."

I really just referenced the Baha Men in an attempt to illustrate a grammatical point. Ouch.

[celestia414]

But I don't think that always works. One of the example sentences from the worksheet was

"The girl whom is shown in the picture is his daughter"

And in that case, it would be "She is his daughter" not her, but it's still whom!

Moot!

[aprilisloca]

This is moot anyway. No one uses this in real life anymore. It's a dying point. I love my who/whom stuff, but let's just accept that language is fluid and changing and move on :)

Seriously, if the students don't know the difference between "excited" and "exciting", they shouldn't be learning who/whom.

~Tammy