<p>do you know if it's </p>
<p>adults who I believed were tolerant or
adults whom I believed were tolerant?</p>
<p>if you write whom, wouldn't that be:
adults whom I belived to be tolerant?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure it’s whom… and yes, “believed to be” is better.</p>
<p>thanks so much!!</p>
<p>so are these both right? (sorry,I just want to make sure)</p>
<p>adults whom I believed were tolerant
adults whom I belived to be tolerant</p>
<p>would the first be okay bc the second one is +1 more word and i’m already 21 words over the limit.</p>
<p>also you would never ever write:
Sentence “Word word!”. </p>
<p>because the correct way is:
Sentence “Word word!” w/o the period at the end, right?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>The first one should be “adults who I believed were tolerant,” because “who” is the subject of the clause “who … were tolerant.” If you switch the sentence around, it’s easier to see: You would say “I believed they were tolerant.” You wouldn’t use objective case (“I believed them were tolerant”) in that sentence.</p>
<p>But in the second case, it’s “adults whom I believed to be tolerant” because “whom” is the object of “I believed.” If you switched this sentence around, you’d say “I believed them to be tolerant.” You wouldn’t use subjective case (“I believed they to be tolerant”) in that sentence.</p>
<p>And you’re right about the punctuation: “Word word!” is adequate. You don’t need a period outside the quotation marks.</p>