What is the proper use of the word "whom"? Can you give an example?
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FancyFeast
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This one I'm not quite wure about but I think the only time "who" is proper is in an interrogative sentence. Like "who" is going to the bowling alley. But, then you could say. With "whom" are you going to the bowling alley? I really don't know, sorry fancyfeast.
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As the object of a verb - "Whom did you ask?" As the object of preposition - "To whom were you referring?" As a relative pronoun to refer to something/one previously mentioned - "She's the girl with whom I went to work." Whom is an object pronoun, while who is a subject pronoun. One would never use whom as the subject of a verb. One method to use to determine correctness of who vs. whom is to rewrite the sentence to eliminate who or whom. If you would have used he, she, or they, in place of the word, then who is the correct word; if you would have used him, her, or them, then whom is the correct word.
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