The basic convention is that the pronoun who is used as the subject of a verb, and whom is used as the object of a verb or a preposition. The pronouns he and him work the same way. If you can substitute he, then
the choice is who
. If you can use him, the choice is whom.
Who or whom would you recommend?
The commonly repeated advice for remembering whether to use who or whom is this:
If you can replace the word with he or she or another subject pronoun
, use who. If you can replace it with him or her (or another object pronoun), use whom.
How do you use whom in a sentence?
- With whom am I speaking? ( I am speaking with him/her. …
- To whom this may concern. ( This concerns him/her. …
- A number of friends went to the cinema, one of whom was the birthday boy. …
- Actually, she knew very little about the man with whom she had promised to spend the summer.
What is the rule for who and whom?
The Rule:
Who functions as a subject, while whom functions as an object
. Use who when the word is performing the action. Use whom when it is receiving the action.
Who I met or whom I met?
Yes, that's
correct
. Who is used as the subject of a sentence or clause. Whom is used as the object of a preposition and as a direct object. In your sentence, the pronoun would refer to the direct object, so to be correct, you should say, “The boy whom I met at the party.”
Who do I love or whom I love?
Who or Whom I Love so Much? The correct way to phrase this whom I love so much, not who I love so much. We know that whom is correct because this pronoun refers to the object of a preposition or verb. We may not have a preposition, but we have the verb love.
Who or Whom shall I say is calling?
“To whom should I say is calling?” would be incorrect grammar.
The person calling is the subject
, so it should be the subjective case, “who”. And you're asking who is calling, not who they want to speak to.
Is it many of who or many of whom?
“Of whom” is
a prepositional phrase modifying “many
.” “Whom” is what you use instead of “who” when the word is the object of a verb or preposition. “Many of whom” is a phrase familiar to many as an idiomatic construction.
What are examples of questions?
- Who are you?
- Who is he?
- Who is she?
- Who do you like?
- Who is your best friend?
- Who is on the phone?
- Who did it?
- Who did you meet?
Who vs that vs whom?
Use “who” when you refer
to the subject of a clause
and “whom” when you refer to the object of a clause (for information regarding subjects versus objects, please refer to Sentence Elements). For example: Joe, who likes blue, met Bob, whom he had never met before.
Who I admire or whom I admire?
Obviously, the proper word is
who
. Compare that with He is a man who I admire. Because we would say I admire him, the sentence should read He is a man whom I admire.
Who or whom in plural?
There is no plural form for “whom
.” Similar to “who,” “whom” is also an interrogative pronoun that can refer to a singular or plural subject. If we can replace the subject with the pronouns “him,” “her,” or “them,” then “whom” is the correct form.
Is whose and who's the same?
Whose is the possessive form of the pronoun who
, while who's is a contraction of the words who is or who has. However, many people still find whose and who's particularly confusing because, in English, an apostrophe followed by an s usually indicates the possessive form of a word.
Who I care about or whom?
The technical rule calls for “
Who” to be used when
referring to the subject of the sentence and “Whom” to be used when referring to the object of a verb or preposition.
Can you guess whom or who?
It certainly appears that
whom is the direct object of the verb guess
, and some grammarians say Guess whom is correct. Others interpret the sentence as You guess who it is. Who is the subject of the subordinate clause who it is, or it is who. (Recall that intransitive verbs do not take an object.)
Can whom be used for plural?
Whom is a pronoun that replaces the singular or plural object of a sentence. Whom can be used in a question or a statement.
