<p>I am still stuck in this 1st grade dilemma :(
Question: The Red Cross workers had not expected the refugees from the flooded plain to be as desperate and as undernourished as those (whom) they had seen earlier in the week.</p>
<p>What makes it whom compared to who? Is it because refugees is plural? >.<</p>
<p>Whom is used when it is a direct object.</p>
<p>Who is used only as the subject.</p>
<p>Who was it? — who is the subject. who was it?</p>
<p>It was he who did it. — who is the subject. who did it.</p>
<p>Whom is used in all other cases, whether it’s as the object of a preposition, the direct object of a sentence, etc. </p>
<p>I met her, to whom I gave a flower. — to whom is the prepositional phrase</p>
<p>She slapped Tom, whom I met the other day. — I met whom the other day. whom is the direct object of I met …</p>
<p>I was taught to rephrase the sentence - “they had seem THEM earlier in the week.” If “them” is used, that means “whom” is correct."</p>
<p>If the original sentence was, “The people who were going to the play,” you would write, “They were going to the play.” So since “they” is used, then “who” is correct." </p>
<p>This was the trick that made the most sense to me. Thanks to Mr. Farmer, my 11th grade English teacher.</p>
<p>Who/whom is not tested on the SAT. Ever.</p>
<p>While you may not be tested directly, you must know when to use who and whom on the real test. There was an actual test question that went something to the tune of: “…restaurant workers, the majority of those wait tables…”</p>
<p>The majority of those was underlined in the sentence identification part, and it is correctly rewritten as the majority of whom…there are also many questions that go something like - John and Joe, which went to school together…</p>
<p>You gotta know when to use who, whom, where, in which, whereby…Several of them were tested today infact.</p>