help with english!!??

Question

"alexis de tocqueville was a nineteenth century french philosopher whom became famous for his classic work "democracy in American", which was based on observations he made during a tour of the United States."


is the "whom" supposed to be used in this sentence?

Answer 1

No. If you can replace it with "he" (ie. "he became famous" )the word you're looking for is who. If you would need to replace it with him (ie. "this belongs to him?") it would be whom ("this belongs to whom?")

It's hard to explain... I hope I made a little sense...

Answer 2

Professionally speaking as a high school English Teacher, the above sentence should be written using the adjective "who" which introduces the clause; a better way to re-write the above sentence is as follows:

"Alexis de Tocqueville was a nineteenth century French philosopher whose classic work "Democracy in American" was based on observations during a tour of the United States."

You will notice the above has a better flow and has the same meaning but less wordy. Are you sure the name of his classic work was "...American" rather than "...America"?

However, should you choose to use the original sentence, be sure to use "who" rather than "whom."

I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

Capital letter for names and places and things
You don't need appositive starting with Alexis De Tocqueville French is a capital letter, again you don't need appositive for democracy

Answer 4

who has sounds right to me

Answer 5

who sounds better

Answer 6

No, you use 'who'

Answer 7

whoooooo

Answer 8

no - 'who' should be used here.

Answer 9

nope, it's who in this case.