| 词汇 | grammar_british-grammar_who-whom |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | Who, whomWho and whom are wh-words. We use them to ask questions and to introduce relative clauses. Who as a question wordWe use who as an interrogative pronoun to begin questions about people:
We use who in indirect questions and statements:
Emphatic questions with whoever and who on earthWe can ask emphatic questions using whoever or who on earth to express shock or surprise. We stress ever and earth:
Who in relative clausesWe use who as a relative pronoun to introduce a relative clause about people:
WhomWhom is the object form of who. We use whom to refer to people in formal styles or in writing, when the person is the object of the verb. We don’t use it very often and we use it more commonly in writing than in speaking. We use whom commonly with prepositions. Some formal styles prefer to use a preposition before whom than to leave the preposition ‘hanging’ at the end of the sentence:
We use it in relative clauses:
We use it in indirect questions and statements:
See also: Relative clauses Questions: interrogative pronouns (what, who) Indirect speech: reporting questions Prepositions Relative pronouns: who Relative pronouns: whom |
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