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Who vs whom quiz.
Whether to use who or whom confounds a lot of people.
Who vs whom trick
The basic rule is easy enough, but even the most seasoned editors and writers can stumble over sentences like the following:
Think about who you want to cover and who is eligible for coverage.
Part of the problem is that the sentence sounds perfectly natural.
And in fact, in everyday conversation, it’s fine. But in more formal contexts and to be grammatically correct, that first who should be whom.
Below we share three tricks for how to figure out whether who or whom is correct.
Trick No.
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The commonly repeated advice for remembering whether to use who or whom is this: If you can replace the word with he or she or another subject pronoun, use who.
If you can replace it with him or her (or another object pronoun), use whom. One way to remember this trick is that both him and whom end with the letter m. So, for example:
[Who/Whom] do you love?
Who or whom checkerDo you love him? You wouldn’t say, “Do you love he?” So whom is correct (sorry, Bo Diddley).
[Who/Whom] writes the songs. Hewrites th
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