when do you use "who" and when you "which"? Help Gramar Nazis!!
 

for example:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan, who like Edmund are on the evil side.

is it WHO LIKE
or WHICH LIKE

?

Who

I'm horrible at grammer.

It's bad when you can't even spell grammar properly. :1orglaugh

Be sure to add the commas in the correct place though.

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who ,like Edmund, are on the evil side.

Agreed, and you didn't:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who, like Edmund, are on the evil side.

Hmm... I'm thinkin a comma should alos be here.. "..her sisters, Goneril and Regan"

Refering to the actual names, "Goneril and Regan" would require the use of, "who" in that it refers to names..

Had the names been omitted, then, "which" would have been used..

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters which, like Edmund, are on the evil side..

At least that's how I'm seein' it..

So, you are saying it should be "The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters, Goneril and Regan, who, like Edmund, are on the evil side?"

You can have too many commas. I am wondering if sisters should be sisters' since it is "her sisters" thus being a possessive.

But I have not taken English since 1971, so I may be a little rusty there

:uhoh

You got to it before me. :thumbsup

The only possessive would be, "Cordelia's" if you said you were referring to Cordelia's sisters.

The only way, in this instance, that "sisters" could be a possessive is if you were to word it as the sisters' evil side..


Hmm.. wonder if it's ovbious that I have absolutely nothing to do tonight.. :)

Regardless, both of your posts are 100% correct.

both are correct

which requires a comma after the word which

your all wrong, its whom :winkwink:

It would still be who:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters, who, like Edmund, are on the evil side.