Difference between who and whom

[Hothu]

Dear Torsten!
Haven't you read my message? Please help me with my questions!
1. Is WHO in the sentence "Who leaves last should turn off the lights" a Relative pronoun?
2. "I don't know who told you that.", "who told you that" is a noun clause, isn't it? "Who" is a pronoun, isn't it a relative pronoun?
3. Can WHOEVER be used as a Relative pronoun?
Thank you very much in advance.

[Vipul88]

hey that personal pronoun test was nuts for me.
i got them all 10 correct

[Gomez]

thanks !

[Spatar Diana]

i think i understand the relative pronouns well enough because i had 10 out of ten right.i think it's easy;who-for people and which for things.whom +preposition represents the possessive, something that belongs to something or to someone.did i get this right?

[Torsten]

Hi Spatar Diana,

Many thanks for joining our forum. Yes, your message pretty much sums up the differences between whom and who. By the way, did you know that we start each sentence with a capital letter in English and that the personal pronoun "I" is capitalized too?

Regards,
Torsten
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[Spatar Diana]

yes,as a matter of fact i know.and also the days of the week and the months of the year are written with a capital letter,right?

[Spatar Diana]

thank you for your fast reply!

[Stew.t.]

hi guys

The basic rules given are good for a general understanding.

But how would you apply the possessiveness rule to these examples of usage;

Whom did you happen to speak to/with?
or
S/he is the person whom we do not speak of?

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[Spatar Diana]

in these both cases i think it's relativity.i mean in both cases the relative pronoun "whom" introduces a relative clause?isn't that right?correct me if i'm wrong.thank you in advance.

[Torsten]

[Spatar Diana]

do you know what i'm really confused about in English? it is how we separate words at the and of a line where there is no place to write the whole word.what do you think?it should be a rule?please, help me if you can.thank you!

[Torsten]

When you use an electronic text editor you don't need to separate any words. Also, I rarely see any English words separated in books or newspapers so why bother about it? However, why not stick to the few simple rules of punctuation? For example, in English we put a space after each sentence.
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[Laimeai2006]

Hi Torsten,

I had scored 7 answers correctly.It's by making mistakes that I can improve my

grammar.

I had learnt that I can't used that after a preposition & what really means that

which eg. I can't understand a word that you are talking about and not what you are

talking about.

Regards,

Lee[/b]

[Torsten]

Hi Lee,

Thanks a lot for joining our forum. Yes, you are right, "I can't understand what you are talking" is correct.
Talk to you soon,
Torsten
PS: You can repeat the test until you get all the answers right.
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[Stew.t.]

Hi Torsten

Don´t ya think;

"I can´t understand a word you´re saying" is more natural or in common usage.