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my first language isn't English and there's a question no teacher has been able to answer me; when exactly do you use "Whom" instead of "Who" and why? Thanks. Also, I'm new here and if you have any tips on how to post my questions correctly it would be of great help. Thanks again.

Strangely Sinuous
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    Over at our sister site English Language Learners this has been answered: http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/274/how-can-one-differentiate-between-who-and-whom, and of course here as well: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56/what-s-the-rule-for-using-who-and-whom-correctly, making this a duplicate. – Stephie Nov 21 '15 at 18:53

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I would just add that despite what you'll read in some of the answers that Stephie refers to, whom is not truly dead; it's alive and kicking! In constructions where the pronoun is object of (and immediately follows) a preposition, only whom is acceptable:

"To whom / *To who is he talking"?

In that example, only whom is possible: who is ungrammatical. Other than that, when the pronoun is object of a verb, the choice between who and whom depends on style level, who being less formal than whom.

BillJ
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