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Questions about the objective pronoun 'whom' and its usage.

This tag is for questions about the usage of the objective pronoun whom which is used instead of ‘who’ when it is the object of a verb or preposition.

"whom did he marry?"

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Should I use who or whom when the subject is plural?

I realise there has been a lot of discussion of who vs whom on these forums, but as far as I can tell none of the previous posts answer my question. Which of these sentences is (more) correct, and why? "South American footballers, including the…
user1205901 - Слава Україні
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Who's who or Who's whom?

I'm wondering if the phrase "Who's who" as in "a who's who of the community" should be "Who's whom" on the basis that if you rephrase to a question and remove the apostrophe you get "Who is who?" which is poor English, so should be "Who is whom?"…
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Double "whom" sounds clunky, but is correct?

Possible Duplicate: What's the rule for using “who” or “whom”? I believe the following sentence is correct, but am slightly unsure as it sounds a bit clunky - plus, the irony of it being incorrect would be unbearable. "Thank you to Bill and Ted,…
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Correct use of "whom"

It is something in this sentence, which does not seem correct to me. Maybe the way I use whom? We use 70% of the data to estimate the probability of default of the remaining 30% of the data. In addition, we use the model in Section 5 to generate…
user1571823
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Why was "whom he thought would be" marked as incorrect if "whom he saw improve" is correct?

I answered two questions incorrectly during my SAT prep class, and they seem to contradict each other. The first question was: The district manager agreed to promote the employee who he saw improve sales by the end of the year. (A) who he saw…
Souvik Banerjee
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Using 'whom' for things

Is this sentence correct (especially the usage of whom)? In addition, it might jump to a random vertex in the graph, whom the current vertex is not necessarily connected to, with a certain probability.
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"All who can understand..." or "All whom can understand..."?

I understand the concept of using the he/him rule for who/whom (he = who, him = whom), but I am not sure about how to go about the following sentence for an art project: All who can understand and accept that are welcome. or All whom can…
Matthias
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"who my opponent was" or "whom my opponent was"?

The sentence in question is "I had known (who/whom) my opponent was". Would you use who or whom in this context, and why? Thanks.
katzj514
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Is "whom" correctly used in these two examples?

N.B.: these are captions–intentional sentence fragments–for photographs. Jason and Tonya, whom the Londoners loved. The two sisters from New York City whom the the Hardings have adopted. Edit: I was asked to update the question with at least…
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“Do you know who John is?” or “Do you know whom John is?”

Is it correct to say “Do you know who John is?” or “Do you know whom John is?”? As far as I’m aware, John is the object, and therefore “whom” should be used. If not though, please let me know why.
user445504
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'The person whom I ask for help is clever'

Does 'whom' work here? The person whom I ask for help is clever. I don't think it does: ask for has already an object.
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Whom/Who do I look like?

Is "Whom do I look like" the 'proper' way of saying "Who do I look like?" I know that second option is the most used one, but still
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Usage of "to both of whom"

I am writing a short formal acknowledgement in a paper, and I would like to thank two people at the same time. The phrase I'm using is essentially: Coffee was paid for by John and Anna, to both of whom I express my sincere gratitude. I am not sure…
Luiz Cordeiro
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who or whom in the following sentence?

I saw the following sentence: Sally, who I saw in town yesterday, is a friend of my sister. But I think it should use whom instead of who, since Sally is the guy I saw, so why not use whom?
Daniel Wu
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how do you use whom

I have a quick question in this sentence would you use who or whom? I have expectations of whom you wed This is not in a story but this is purely for learning the rules of using whom.
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