Who/Whom?

Piste

Hey, could someone please explain to me the difference between who and whom?

Thank you, Liz

"Who" doesn't have to refer to a person, whereas "whom" always does.

Plunky

If you do a modern European language, you should know that there's the whole "nominative" "genative" "accusative" and "dative" thing... Basically, as far as I have ever understood it, anything that isn't nominative gets whom...

Plunky

Plunky wrote:

If you do a modern European language, you should know that there's the whole "nominative" "genative" "accusative" and "dative" thing... Basically, as far as I have ever understood it, anything that isn't nominative gets whom...

Yes thats it exactly. I wasn't sure of how to put it.

Capt'n Midnight

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

Hey, could someone please explain to me the difference between who and whom?

Thank you, Liz

The latter has an extra 'm' at the end.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv47.shtml

Nice table - but US site so they despite 222 years as a country they still aren't up to speed on the old grammar.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

To choose correctly among the forms of who, re-phrase the sentence so you choose between he and him. If you want him, write whom; if you want he, write who.

For him the bell tolls

pickarooney

And if the above makes no sense, only use 'whom' following a preposition.

simu

I had a teacher in primary school who claimed that only people in Northern Ireland use whom. Shocking ignorance!

It annoys me very much when people get it wrong. :mad:

pickarooney

Was she talking about SDLP politician John Whom?

Frankie Smith

lol