When to use who or whom?

[rewboss]

Originally Posted by blueabell2go

I was intrigued by Rewboss's comment that Russian has six cases and two sub-cases. From what I remember learning at school (almost 40 years ago)Russian has 6 cases:
nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental and prepositional. I can't say that I remember learning about subcases.

The two subcases I remember are: The animate accusative and the partitive genitive. You probably didn't call them "subcases" at school (they were taught to me as exceptions to the rule).

Russian also used to have a vocative case, but this is preserved only in a few idioms: "Bozhe moi!" = "My God!".

[blueabell2go]

Thanks, Rewboss,

I must have been off school that day.

[Humble]

Oh yes, Rewboss, absolutely right! Silly me, how could I forget? The Vocative is still alive and kicking in Ukrainian, Belarusian and, it seems, Polish. As to the Partitive, I do mention it when I explain the usage of some.

[blueabell2go]

Humble, Rewboss,

Some honey, a very distant bell is starting to ring

[chuotconbenho]

Hi, I'm Linh.
Nice to meet yoy!!!!!!!!

[MrPedantic]

Hello Linh, welcome to Using English!

If you have any questions about English, feel free to start a new thread, and someone here will help you.

All the best,

MrP

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Humble

...
Yes, I've seen long threads on linguistic discussions here, but I found myself shunning them as sometimes they leave me with a heavy heart...

Me too - and I'm not even an ESL.

b

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by BobK

Me too - and I'm not even an ESL.

b

They give me a headache. My heart is fine.