An English Grammar by J. W. (James Witt) Sewell;W. M. (William Malone) Baskervill
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persons.
DECLENSION OF INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. 101. The following are all the interrogative forms:-- SING. AND PLUR. SING. AND PLUR. SINGULAR _Nom._ who? which? what? _Poss._ whose? -- -- _Obj._ whom? which? what? In spoken English, _who_ is used as objective instead of _whom_; as, "_Who_ did you see?" "_Who_ did he speak to?" [Sidenote: _To tell the case of interrogatives._] 102. The interrogative _who_ has a separate form for each case, consequently the case can be told by the form of the word; but the case of _which_ and _what_ must be determined exactly as in nouns,--by the _use_ of the words. For instance, in Sec. 99, _which_ is nominative in the first sentence, since it is subject of the verb _had_; nominative in the second also, subject of _doth love_; objective in the last, being the direct object of the verb _shall take_. |
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