Grammar Game

[pianoplayer88]

I'm sure all you smart people out there should get this right. Now, which statement is correct,


Egg yolks ARE white.

Egg yolks IS white.


Figure it out and see if you can come up with a new one.

[Bob]

I would say, "Egg yolks are white," but it's probably the other one then.  Yolks has to be plural though.  Hmmm.... 


I can't come up with one.  If someone can explain when to use who and whom, I'm interested though.  I had that in two English/grammar classes and all I was told was that it's whom when you have a direct object or something like that.  Except I didn't and still don't know quite what that referes to... So I don't know exactly when to use whom, except by ear.

[thalberg]

I'm sure all you smart people out there should get this right. Now, which statement is correct,


Egg yolks ARE white.

Egg yolks IS white.


Figure it out and see if you can come up with a new one.

Neither is correct.  Egg yolks are yellow, not white.

[wotgoplunk]

I can't come up with one.  If someone can explain when to use who and whom, I'm interested though.  I had that in two English/grammar classes and all I was told was that it's whom when you have a direct object or something like that.  Except I didn't and still don't know quite what that referes to... So I don't know exactly when to use whom, except by ear.

If it's he/she it's who. Him/her is whom.

That's what I was taught as a simple rule.


So the sentence: He walked into the store.

Would become: Who walked into the store?

Likewise: The pencil belongs to him.

Becomes: The pencil belongs to whom?


Those are correct, are they?

[counterpoint]

Bravo Thalberg   

New one from me:

A well-tuned piano has 80 perfect fifths.

Is that sentence correct?

[richard black]

No, a well-tuned piano has no perfect fifths.

[counterpoint]

No, a well-tuned piano has no perfect fifths.

Yes, that's right 

And the number of tempered fifths is 81 

[ahinton]

And how many bad-tempered fifths are there?

Best,

Alistair