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In English grammar, "what" is used to ask about things or ideas, while "whom" is used to ask about people or objects that are the object of a verb or preposition. "What" is used for subjects and direct objects, while "whom" is used for indirect objects and objects of prepositions. For example, "What are you reading?" asks about the thing being read, while "Whom did you give the book to?" asks about the person receiving the book.
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What are examples of inderect objects?
An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb, receives the direct object, and answers: To whom and To what.
What part of speech is what or whom?
"What" is a pronoun. It's the object form of "who", meaning that's used after prepostions ("to whom, by whom") and in formal speech as the direct object of verbs (whom should I tell?) "What" can be a pronoun, adjective, or adverb. In "What did you say?" it's a pronoun. In "what books have you read?" it's an adjective. In "what with one thing and another, this is hard" it's an adverb.
What is the direct and indirect object in The dog ate the food?
Food is the direct object. This sentence does not have an indirect object. The D.O. answers the question "the dog ate what?" An indirect object would answer the question "for whom / to whom / for what?" as in "I gave the dog a bone." I gave what? A bone (D.O.) I gave the bone to whom? The dog (I.O.)
Does a direct object answer what or whom?
D.O. is what or whom I.O. is to whom or for whom
Can you give someone a sentence with the word whom?
To whom it may concern Who is a subject pronoun; it is used as the subject of a verb. Whom is an object pronoun. If you find you can replace who/whom with he, she, or they, who is correct. If you find you've replaced who/whom with him, her, or them, then whom is correct.
What is a noun that answers to whom or for whom?
Give the letter to Mary. to whom?The letter is for Mary. for whom?
What answers to What or Whom?
What is used for things. Whom is used for a person.
What are indirect objects?
A noun that answers the question "To Whom?" ot "To What?" or "For Whom?" or "For What?"
What answers what or whom in a?
Proper nouns
What does answers what or whom mean?
"Answers what" refers to providing information or clarification about a topic or question, while "answers whom" refers to identifying the person or entity that is the subject of a question.
What part of speech answers what or whom?
The part of speech that answers "what" or "whom" in a sentence is a pronoun. Pronouns are words like "he," "she," "it," "they," "who," and "what" that replace nouns in a sentence.
What Answers the question whom or what?
an indirect object
What is the Greek definition of whom?
Whom = ος / η / ο . Hope that answers your question.
What answers the question what or whom in a sentence?
The subject of a sentence answers the question "what" or "whom." It refers to the person or thing that is performing the action or being described in the sentence.
What tells to whom or for whom the action is done?
The indirect object in a sentence tells to whom or for whom the action is being done. It usually answers the question "to whom" or "for whom." For example, in the sentence "I gave her a book," "her" is the indirect object indicating to whom the action of giving is done.
What questions do the accusative and genetive cases answer?
The accusative case answers the question "whom?" or "what?" in relation to the direct object of a sentence. The genitive case answers the question "whose?" or "of whom?" to show possession or relationship between nouns.
What literary term answers what or whom?
In terms of sentence construction it is called the 'subject'.
