Comma Queen: Who/Whom for Dummies

[@maxinewally6630]

Love this series!! Mary Norris is a straight up G!!

[@khorshidalam103]

thanks

[@prettypeggy5292]

+Maxine Wally Oh yeah!

[@judyann4793]

It's very easy. Always use the masculine personal pronoun when turning the sentence around. If him is correct, then the relative pronoun is whom. Both words end with the letter m.

[@mikeythompson7777]

So, in the example she gives: "...fit for the tired businessman ** he said was his ideal viewer" = "he said *the tired businessman* was his ideal viewer" = "he said *he* was his ideal viewer" = "who". But: "...fit for the tired businessman ** he said was his ideal viewer" = "he said his ideal viewer was *the tired businessman*" = "he said his ideal viewer was *him*" = "whom" ??? Will you guys print one of my short stories now? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Pirusiandres]

Love you comma queen. Greetings from Colombia, South America.

[@Wadj1]

Having learnt Latin helps with this 😊

[@IdanShir]

this is the person whom you should turn to.

[@2Brian]

+Idan Shir _"This is the person to whom you should turn."_ is better grammar.

[@IdanShir]

+Brian Hamilton And if english was my first language, surely I would have used this type of phrasing.

[@2Brian]

+Idan Shir No problem. English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Take comfort in knowing that many people in the USA speak it poorly, although it may be their first language. In many languages, there is the familiar or colloquial phrasing and the scholarly, correct grammatical structure. The way in which most people speak on a daily basis is quite different than the _proper_ way.

[@mdouglas75]

No, it's not (anymore). No one has talked or written this way for many, many years.

[@rohangrant9552]

Idán Shir @

[@peacenow4456]

I LOVE HER!!

[@trickygazelle3795]

For Whom the Bell Tolls: the BELL tolls for WHOM. It's receiving the action, not doing it, so it's whom. Is there really more to it than that?

[@RodrigoTeixeirasCosmos]

sharp lady

[@modernenglishdaily4636]

I appreciate this video. Now I have an idea of what a great grammar video should be like. Somehow you've managed to cover all of the underlying rules concerning the usage of these two pronouns but also kept it grounded by the actual expectations of everyday speech. Kudos, kind regards, and keep on trucking. I guess while I'm here I could ask a question that had recently come to mind. How or could one submit a short story, poem, and/or some piece of writing? I'm curious but not yet so curious enough to submit a google search. If you'd like to see my version of an explanatory video for who vs. whom usage you could check my channel. I can promise explosions, ballistic grenade launchers, and rocket propelled mechanical arms.

[@natvasconcelos4702]

WHAT A COMMA QUEEEENN😩👌👏

[@Fikuw]

What about "it", is it correct to use who or whom in any case?

[@judyann4793]

+Fikuw To what can I turn? I can turn to it.

[@DiegoGarcia-qs5dw]

Ya nadie ve estos videos

[@cynthiachazen3420]

How dare you dis the legendary Tony Bennet! He can sing in Pig Latin if it suits him. 😝

[@philevans2164]

i feel so accomplished doing this stuff. copyediting seems fun but i wonder if I'm smart enough for such a job

[@ohmyblindman]

That you even want or care to makes you eminently qualified. A degree in English would help.

[@MotherRealtor]

Adolfo Acosta !

[@anthonystam6867]

'Who can I turn to' uses an interrogative pronoun (a question word) not the relative pronoun. Caught her out :)

[@Hilushenka]

What is the truth about " ANYWAYSsssssssssssssss "

[@crapsolapso9341]

Whom?

[@natvasconcelos4702]

Whomst'st'ev

[@2Brian]

Ending a sentence with a preposition is also bad grammar. So, the phrase should actually be, *"To whom can I turn?"*

[@BrysonKeenan]

Surely...

[@algapedia9164]

That is just a stupid rule some people made up to make English more like Latin since in Latin you would not end a sentence with a preposition. The vast majority of English-speaking people have been ending sentences with prepositions in speech for hundreds of years, so why should we omit them in writing? (You may have noticed that I ended my first sentence with a preposition).

[@TheManinBlack9054]

You actually can blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/28/grammar-myths-prepositions/

[@Rohilla313]

The story goes that when Winston Churchill was reminded of that rule, he remarked “This is the kind of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put”.

[@Mr._Chievous]

@@algapedia9164 i did not notice

[@jakeseo11]

lol