“Whom” is not always used when it should be. <\/p>\n
Who and Whom are Relative Pronouns<\/b> , and pronouns have cases<\/b> — different versions, depending on how they are used. <\/p>\n
” Who<\/b> ” is the nominative case, used as a subject or a predicate noun:<\/p>\n
Who is he? Is she who we think she is?<\/p>\n
(The verb “to be” is a linking verb and NEVER takes an object, always a predicate noun or predicate adjective.)<\/p>\n
” Whom<\/b> ” is the objective case, used whenever you need an object in a sentence — Direct Object, Indirect Object, Object of Preposition:<\/p>\n
Whom did you give it to? (“whom” is I.O., “it” is D.O.)<\/p>\n
To whom is he speaking? (“whom” is I.O.)<\/p>\n
They are the people from whom I received the gift. (“whom” is object of preposition “from”), (“gift” is D.O.)<\/p>\n
You gave the present to WHOM? (incredulous) (“present” is D.O.; “whom” is I.O.)<\/p>\n
In a sentence with both a direct and an indirect object, you may give something (D.O.) to someone\/thing\/a pet (I.O.), or you may do something (D.O.) for someone (I.O.).<\/p>\n
A couple more examples of nominative case pronouns versus objective case pronouns:<\/p>\n
I gave the book to him\/her. (“I” is nominative case; “him\/her” are objective case.)<\/p>\n
She\/He gave the book to me. (“She\/He” are nominative case; “me” is objective case.)<\/p>\n
” Who<\/b> ” is also an Interrogative pronoun<\/b> — used to ask questions and can be singular or plural:<\/p>\n
Who is he? Who are they?<\/p>\n
Here is a partial pronoun chart from the site http:\/\/www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk\/english-pronouns-visual-chart\/<\/a> that shows the different versions of the Personal Pronouns<\/b> :<\/p>\n Here’s an image from the Bogota Post that adds the Relative Pronouns “Who” and “Whom” in the last two columns:<\/p>\n Sorry if this is too long. Hope it’s helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Whom” is not always used when it should be. Who and Whom are Relative Pronouns , and pronouns have cases — different versions, depending on how they are used. ” Who ” is the nominative case, used as a subject Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}