A language use tidbit: Who/Whom
Posted By RichC on March 9, 2024
Language usage is not one of my particular strengths … therefore I’m with the thought that “when in doubt reach for whom over who, just to be safe. Then get the ‘overcorrected’ mistakes …” — LINK
A trick to figure it out, which we’ve mentioned before, is to substitute he or she in your sentence—and if it works, then it’s probably a case for who/whoever. A him/her calls for whomever.
So, in the first example, He reached a threshold and was banished (so: whoever). In the second example, videos were sent to him (so: whom). In the third example, the issue is who is closest with him/her/them (so: whom). It’s a way of figuring out if we are dealing with a subject pronoun or an object being acted upon.
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