Wednesday, April 18, 2007

In the interest of better English

I consider English to be a native language of India for sometime now, even if many Indians, myself included would not call it their mother tongue, it is still a native tongue since many of us, think in English, and count in English and that pretty much dictates the primacy of the language. Now, having said that, I must however admit that there are times, when I am unsure about a particular usage of a phrase, a word or a term or am unsure about the grammatical correctness of a particular sentence and so on. In fact, in this instance I was looking for a way to learn to use WHO and WHOM in the grammatically correct way when I stumbled on some links which I thought were interesting. One of the links below does explain a simple HOW TO on the usage of WHO and WHOM. I hope you will benefit from these links.

http://www.sfwa.org/writing/chadvce.htm - This link is very interesting and touches upon interesting topics in English including a guide on usage of WHO and WHOM.

http://www.elmoreleonard.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/20 - Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing. This would be interesting for all those interested in getting a few tips on writing. Some of the tips are so easy to remember and follow.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors - This is definitely one of the better references I have found on the Internet to help with common errors in English. You can use this to just browse when you have the time or look for specific errors which you may search by keywords.

I hope you find these useful.








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