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I'll accept the who/whom complaint. As another poster has said, your point 2 is not a universally agreed rule. See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/

by theoh 10y ago

I'll accept the who/whom complaint. As another poster has said, your point 2 is not a universally agreed rule. See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.h... Your point 3 is totally valid, I assumed you were quoting a wannabe noun phrase. I wasn't paying enough attention.

microtherion 10y ago
Point 2 to me was not about singular/plural, but about companies being animate/inanimate. It turns out that there used to be a very clear preference for "which", but by now, "who" is winning out in US usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=company+which%2Ccompany+who&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=0&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccompany%20which%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccompany%20who%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=company+which%...