Yet another grammar query! Who-whom -them

[Pickman's model]

Hence my mention of a colon...

Semi-colon... Maybe a hyphen.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, that's about where I started. But it has no drama. My word count is ridiculously small so I have to get a lot of what I'm trying to say over in the subtext and invisible invented imagined assumed internal voice.

I'd put in a couple of examples from this anonymous mass.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Semi-colon... Maybe a hyphen.

.... a half a colon, and a misshapen hymen...

 

[alan_]

meanwhile notwithstanding the executions and tortures (of ordinary people) is the grammar correct.

 

[Pickman's model]

.... a half a colon, and a misshapen hymen...

Spot of surgery for the former and much anguish from the latter, maybe

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I'd put in a couple of examples from this anonymous mass.

The whole thing is a sort of general portrait of one of them.



can you guess what it is yet?

 

[Pickman's model]

The whole thing is a sort of general portrait of one of them.



can you guess what it is yet?

It is a novel or short story, some sort of fiction?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

But you can incorporate sentence two in sentence one.

Into
Within

 

[Pickman's model]

Into
Within

Just so

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Spot of surgery for the former and much anguish from the latter, maybe

 

[SheilaNaGig]

It is a novel or short story, some sort of fiction?

Nope.

 

[bimble]

Nope.

Is it a family story ?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Is it a family story ?

Nope! (although now you say that...)

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Many tens of thousands were tortured and executed, most of whom were ordinary people caught up in the hysteria of the time.


^^That would be a shit bit of a rubbish fiction thing.

If it was fiction it would say more like

The hordes came and took many thousands of the Tribe. We were tortured, we were executed in our many tens of thousands.

oh my god I need four volumes for this and it's still shit.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

(Now I'm just procrastinating. I really need to finish this...)

Thanks Urban. Whom stays.

 

[maomao]

Microsoft paperclip is shit. It always objects to the passive voice.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Microsoft paperclip is shit. It always objects to the passive voice.

Ah yes. That's why it always gave me such a hard time with my lab reports. I'd forgotten that.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

All grammar checkers are shit; they have no grasp of context, which is to be fair quite a hard thing for a computer to have, but still. I always turn them off. If you're actually helped by Clippy correcting your grammar you basically have no business writing at all.

 

[twentythreedom]

It's nice to be right

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Microsoft paperclip is shit. It always objects to the passive voice.

...in really quite a rather passive aggressive manner, if I may be so bold as to say so.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

All grammar checkers are shit; they have no grasp of context, which is to be fair quite a hard thing for a computer to have, but still. I always turn them off. If you're actually helped by Clippy correcting your grammar you basically have no business writing at all.

I'd agree with that. Yes.

 

[petee]

I've got this sentence:

"Many tens of thousands were tortured and executed, most of whom were ordinary people caught up in the hysteria of the time. T’was ever thus."


That stupid paperclip is telling me that the "whom" is wrong. But when I google it, I'm told it's a distinction between he/her or his/hers. But what if I'm trying to say THEM?


(so annoying...)

"whom" is correct. if you use "them", start a new sentence:

"Many tens of thousands were tortured and executed. Most of them ...

 

[Riklet]

You always use whom after a preposition.

To from with around whom etc