Reviews for "Whom Shall Reign?"

Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:57 pm

While I understand that you're TRYING to be grammatically correct--using "whom" and all that in the title--to grammatically knowledgable perusers of the site, that glaring error is a huge put-off. And, truthfully, I didn't even read the drabble, just went straight to "add review." The title must be "who shall reign." one uses whom in relation with a preposition or prepositional phrase/clause, like, "to whom the letter is addressed" or "for whom the bell tolled", et cetera. read the title aloud to yourself. See? it sounds bizarre, doesn't it? same with these examples: "whom went there?"

as a relative pronoun, it's a tricky word, i understand. but reading aloud, "For whom the bell tolled" sounds distinguished, unlike "whom shall reign." the latter sounds "wrong" aloud--use your ears. use whom as the object of a verb or a preposition. stick to that, and you should be fine.

HOWEVER, whom is sometimes used (as in the case with "whomever") as a plural form of who (whoever). that's considered optional now in our grammatically lenient society, but an example:
CORRECT: "Whomever can join us." But, like I said, that's optional. Don't bother with it; just makes you sound stuck up and pedantic. Smile smiley face

bottom line: use whom as the object of a verb or preposition (al phrase/clause). Other times, just read the sentence aloud and see if it sounds weird. Unless you're not a native speaker, that'll usually serve you well (unless you think "I did good" sounds perfectly all right Smile smiley face

).

Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Any questions and feel free to contact me.

--K

Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:15 pm

Said before on LJ, but just wanted to say again - I like your take on the challenge and you've picked an interesting character to look at (and one I'm rather fond of myself, heh). Nice concise writing, getting the idea across really well in so small a space. Another great drabble, Isil!
SW

Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:32 am

I like the character you've chosen for the challenge. Very skillful approach. Nicely done, Isil Smile smiley face

Thank you for sharing.

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