7 comments on “Dun Writin’—Now Whut? – 42 Who, Whom, and other Word Misuses (A series by Susan Uttendorfsky – Owner of Adirondack Editing)”

1. I learned English by reading, not by studying, and I’ve diagrammed a few simple sentences for the fun of it, BUT I have no idea what I’m doing there if your want it to be formal grammar and know why.

   Reading provides a huge database; when I can’t figure out exactly what I’m supposed to do, I use the Handbook of Good English.

   It is always interesting to get a quick rule of thumb, and this is a useful one. I didn’t know ‘who’ was a subject pronoun, and ‘whom’ an object one, and now I do. Thanks.

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   • Indeed, except for learning the terminology, reading is arguably the best way to learn grammar. 🙂

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     • The ONLY non-painful way. And printed books used to be pretty good on formatting and lack of typos (except I wasn’t sensitized to such then, so I may be living with a past that didn’t exist).

       Reading is the knowledge base that makes writing possible.

2. Thanks for reblogging Chris 😀

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   • My pleasure. 🙂

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3. Very true!!! Another great post 😍

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   • I just played the role of the humble reblog. It was a great post. 🙂

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