Who or Whom

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Who or Whom
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Who

• Is a subject pronoun.
• Who or what the sentence is about (the person or
  thing that is doing or being something)
• Usually comes at the beginning of a sentence.
• Who just came in the door?
• Who gave that to you?

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Whom

• Is an object pronoun.
• Usually follows a preposition (to, for, from,
  with) as object of the preposition.
• To whom are you referring?
• You loaned your book to whom?

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• It can also be the direct or indirect object (the
  person or thing that is having something done to
  it).
• Whom should I take to dinner tonight?
• I saw someone whom I had met before.

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• The easiest way to test whether who or whom is
  correct, is to substitute.
• Who he
• Whom him
• Sometimes you will also need to turn a question
  around into a statement.

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• Who/Whom did the committee select?

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• Who/Whom did the committee select?
• The committee did select who/whom.

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• Who/Whom did the committee select?
• The committee did select who/whom.
• The committee did select he/him.

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• Who/Whom did the committee select?
• The committee did select who/whom.
• The committee did select he/him.
• The committee did select him.

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• Who/Whom did the committee select?
• The committee did select who/whom.
• The committee did select he/him.
• The committee did select him.
• The committee did select whom.

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• Who/whom is coming to your party?

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• Who/whom is coming to your party?
• He/Him is coming to your party?

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• Who/whom is coming to your party?
• He/Him is coming to your party?
• He is coming to your party
• Who is coming to your party?

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Examples

• (Who or whom) did you see at Lake Erie?
• From (who, whom) did you learn about it?
• (Who, whom) will rent us a boat here?
• (Who, whom) knows where to catch fish?
• To (who, whom) did you write this morning?
• Tomorrow (who, whom) will travel with us?
• With (who, whom) will you walk to the market?

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• 1. __________ was the thoughtful person?
• For ______________ have they scheduled the
  swimming party?
• Do you know ________ arranged the flowers?
• _______ will be willing to drive tonight?
• I dont know ________ gave you the present.
• I wonder to ______ I should send the note.
• There are a lot of people _____ really like our
  teacher.
• Many of the people _____ came to the party had a
  great time.