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Originally Posted by sweetgalshruti
Hey can anyone tell me the right usage of who and whom.A british teacher of mine old me anything can be used.It doesn't matter who or whom.What yyou say?
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I suppose you mean an "English" teacher of yours?
Some might say she's right. Afterall, not many people really know the difference between 'who and whom', so using either hardly matters, right?
Well, not exactly.
Wren and Martin will tell that the differences lies in subject/object. "Use who when you are referring to the
subject of a clause and whom when you are referring to the
object of a clause."
Got it?... Well frankly, I didn't
There's a easier way to differentiate between the two. It's a trick our Verbal teacher at IMS taught us.
Trick:
"Answer the question or rephrase it in terms of he/him"
To give an example:-
Q. Who/Whom is that man?
A. He/Him is Vaibhav.
In the above case the answer is "
He is Vaibhav", so the question will be "
Who is that man?"
take another case:-
Q. With who/whom are you going to the movie?
A. I am going with he/him?
Here the answer is obviously, "I am going with
him". So the question will be, "With
whom are you going?".
It becomes quite easy if you think in these terms.
In a nutshell:-
He = Who
Him = Whom
cheers...
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