When you ask questions you use another kind of pronoun.
Who is that? What did he say? Which is it?
A pronoun that is used to form a question is called an interrogative pronoun. The antecedants of the interrogative pronouns are the words that answer the questions.
Who said that? Holmes said that.
What did he say? He said, "Aha!"
Which do you mean? I mean the mystery.
If the words which and what come directly before nouns, they act as adjectives, not as pronouns. If which and what stand alone, they act as pronouns.
Adjectives: Which picture do you like?
Pronoun: Which do you like? What is your plan?
Who has different forms to reflect case depending on how you use it in a sentence.
Nominative case: Who Subject pronoun
Object case: Whom object pronoun
Who knows the story? He knows.
To whom did you give a book? I gave a book to her.
To help you decide whether to use who or whom, turn the question into a statement. Substitute he or she for who, and use him or her in place of whom to see which case is correct.
Write the sentence and underline the correct word choice. Use your best penmanship--Cursive and in Ink!!
1. (Who, Whom) did Carolyn Keen create?
2. (Who, Whom) is her most important character?
3. (Who, Whom) is the best teen-age investigator?
4. (Which, Whom) is it---the one about Nancy Drew or the one with the Hardy boys?
5. (Who, Which) do you prefer?
6. (Whose, Who's) are these books?
7.(Who, Whom) should we ask?
Who is that? What did he say? Which is it?
A pronoun that is used to form a question is called an interrogative pronoun. The antecedants of the interrogative pronouns are the words that answer the questions.
Who said that? Holmes said that.
What did he say? He said, "Aha!"
Which do you mean? I mean the mystery.
If the words which and what come directly before nouns, they act as adjectives, not as pronouns. If which and what stand alone, they act as pronouns.
Adjectives: Which picture do you like?
Pronoun: Which do you like? What is your plan?
Who has different forms to reflect case depending on how you use it in a sentence.
Nominative case: Who Subject pronoun
Object case: Whom object pronoun
Who knows the story? He knows.
To whom did you give a book? I gave a book to her.
To help you decide whether to use who or whom, turn the question into a statement. Substitute he or she for who, and use him or her in place of whom to see which case is correct.
Write the sentence and underline the correct word choice. Use your best penmanship--Cursive and in Ink!!
1. (Who, Whom) did Carolyn Keen create?
2. (Who, Whom) is her most important character?
3. (Who, Whom) is the best teen-age investigator?
4. (Which, Whom) is it---the one about Nancy Drew or the one with the Hardy boys?
5. (Who, Which) do you prefer?
6. (Whose, Who's) are these books?
7.(Who, Whom) should we ask?