Monday, July 1, 2013

relative pronouns - Can a noun be both a subject and an object at the same time?


John Knight, who/whom I spoke to yesterday, seemed to be rather irritable.




In this sentence, John Knight is an object because I (the subject) am speaking to him; however, he is also a subject since he is performing an action, which in this case, is being irritable. Is he both a subject and an object? If not, which one of these is he?




Furthermore, which is correct: who or whom?

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