Enquire within upon everything
Robert Kemp Philp1315. Rule.--After writing a sentence always look through it, and see that wherever the word It is employed, it refers to or carries the mind back to the object which it is intended to point out. 6. The general distinction between This and That may be thus defined: this denotes an object present or near, in time or place, that something which is absent. 7. These refers, in the same manner, to present objects, while those refers to things that are remote. 8. Who changes, under certain conditions, into whose and whom. But that and which always remain the same. 9. That may be applied to nouns or subjects of all sorts; as, the girl that went to school, the dog that bit me, the ship that went to London, the opinion that he entertains. 10. The misuse of these pronouns gives rise to more errors in speaking and writing than any other cause. 11. When you wish to distinguish between two or more persons, say, "Which is the happy man?"--not who--"Which of those ladies do you admire?" 12. Instead of "Who do you think him to be?"--say, "Whom do you think him to be?" 13. Whom should I see? 14. To whom do you speak? 15. Who said so? 16. Who gave it to you? 17. Of whom did you procure them? 18. Who was he? 19. Who do men say that I am? 20. Whom do they represent me to be? [1] 21. In many instances in which who is used as an interrogative, it does not become whom; as "Who do you speak to?" "Who do you expect?" "Who is she married to?" "Who is this reserved for?" "Who was it made by?" Such sentences are found in the writings of our best authors, and it would be presumptuous to consider them as ungrammatical. If the word whom should be preferred, then it would be best to say, "For whom is this reserved?" &c.

