I know that "which" or "that" should be used to refer to entities, and "who" to people. However, I have come across "who" being used to refer to companies and agencies in a UK ESL textbook for the second time.  So is the following sentence grammatical in UK English?     An agency or a company who will help you ...
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I have some doubts about the usages of That and Who. Sometimes I read sentences such as. "You are someone I love" "You are someone WHO I love" Or "People were asked to describe the qualities they look for in a friend" "People were asked to describe the qualities THAT they look for in a friend"  Why in some of these sentences WHO or THAT are omitted and others are not. Could somebody help me with this? I'll appreciate it! Thanks a million.
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From  page 48 of Law: A Very Short Introduction, by Raymond Wacks:     In other words, you owe a duty to persons whom it is foreseeable are likely to be harmed by your conduct.   To try to parse this, temporarily overlook 'it is foreseeable'. Then persons is the subject of the verb phrase are likely to be harmed. So , should the relative pronoun for persons be who instead? Is my parse wrong?   Are the (deleted) comments right: that this style predominates in law texts? If this is correct grammar, what is the general rule? Is it commonly used in other contexts?
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Whose is used for people (e.g. "Whose that girl?"), but is it acceptable to use whose for objects too? Is there another word I should use for objects?  To make the question clearer, when I ask "Whose that car?" I am expecting an answer similar to "It's X's car." where X refers to a person. I could say "a man whose opinion I respect." and whose opinion would refer to the opinion of a person. Could I say "the desk whose drawer was broken by my brother"? Should I replace whose with another word?
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Why do we say "In which" in many formal essays and documents? I never understood this. The definition for which on Merriam Webster is "being what one or ones out of a group". Why is it that we have adapted to using the word 'which' outside of interrogative sentences?
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I am very uncertain about when to use "most of whom," "most of who," or "most of which."  Please give concrete examples instead of only rules like, "this is the subject, so you should..."
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I know that who is used when asking about a subject (Who is at the door?) and whom is used when asking about an object (By whom was the door opened?). How do you determine which one to use when the object becomes the subject of another clause?   For example, take the sentence:      I gave the prize to ____ deserved it most.   Would it be whomever because it's the object of "gave," or would it be whoever because it's the subject of "deserved"? Is their a hard-and-fast rule to rely on in situations like this?
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Possible Duplicate:             Is the use of "who", as applied to non-human animals, ever considered grammatically correct? Would it be correct to refer to a cat as "the same cat who I saw yesterday" instead of "the cat that I saw yesterday", or is this considered incorrect?
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Today I heard a speaker use the phrase "this person", referring to the subject-person of the story they were telling, and I heard it as (that person). Between the words “this” or “that” in context with the phrase and story-tense, which should you use.
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Excuse me if this topic has been brought up before though I couldn't find it. It seems that there are many similar topics related to both defining and non-defining clauses but there is still one question that bothers me. I want to know about the difference between wh- pronouns (who, which, what...) vs. that in restrictive relative clause.   For example: The man that I saw at the mall looked puzzled.  The man who I saw at the mall looked puzzled.  I omitted commas intentionally, as I'm willing to talk about defining clauses only.   The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language gives quite vague description on that and I cannot think about actual examples:  "Relative clauses are so called because they are related by their form to an antecedent. They contain within their structure an anaphoric element whose interpretation is determined by the antecedent. This anaphoric element may be overt or covert. In the overt case the relative clause is marked by the presence of one of the relative words who, whom, whose, which, etc., as or within the initial constituent: clauses of this type we call wh relatives. In non-wh relatives the anaphoric element is covert, a gap; this class is then subdivided into that relatives and bare relatives depending on the presence or absence of that." Thanks in advance!   UPD: I know that it seems that in general there is no need to dig for this information but still I need this for my research.
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Today I found myself in a situation that I asked "Which class" to a friend who said that "we are going to the class". Then one of my friends said that I should ask "what class" and another one said both (what class and which class) are correct. Who is right?  This issue I meet often when I'm talking about things, such as:      What day/ which day?      What floor / which floor?      what teacher / which teacher?      What page / which page?      What place / which place?      What line (bus) / Which line?      What /which sentence (do you agree with)?
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I am always confused about where to put adverbs in sentences. For example, consider the questions below:        Why did they target us specifically?   Why did they target specifically us?   Why did they specifically target us?      I believe all these sentences mean the same. Am I correct? I am always confused about where to put adverbs such as always and specifically, etc. Is there a particular grammar rule for this?  Funny, you see, I can even form the above sentence in different ways.         I always confuse where to put this kind of adverb   Always I confuse where to put this kind of adverb
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What is the difference between these phrases? When is it valid to use which? Should they be avoided as being ambiguous?
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I've been looking, but I have not come across this 'whom' related question anywhere.  Specifically in this circumstance, I feel 'with whom' flows more naturally but I remember someone suggested that 'whom with' is actually the proper order since it is referencing 'the people'     I am looking to find a friendly environment where I can enjoy my work and the people whom with I work.   Or     I am looking to find a friendly environment where I can enjoy my work and the people with whom I work.
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When referring to an entity like a government body, should it be capitalized if referring to is by classification(?).  E.g., if I write:     The City of New York requires us to get a building permit.   Certainly "city" should be capitalized.  However, if I'm communicating in a context where everyone should know what city I'm referring to (the one we are in), when I write:     The city requires us to get a building permit.   Should "city" still be capitalized?
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Can you explain why we say AN NHS provision but A National Health provision. Or A UFO but An UNIDENTIFIED Fly Object. Are there any rules regarding the use of A or An when using initials such as ! In business FME ? Thanks
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What is the difference between the words which and that?  For example I have the following sentences:   “I have a car which is blue.” “I have a car that is blue.”   Are there any rules specifying usage of which and that?
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Possible Duplicate:          How can I be sure when to use 'all that' or 'all what' in making sentences. Is there any differences in their meaning. I've tried googling but the results just didn't match. For instance:      All that the president said was published in the dailies.    or     All what the president said was published in the dailies.