<p>Can someone give a detailed explanation of who/whom? </p>
<p>And please go beyond the he/him trick cause that doesn't always work. Usually the problems people have with these are when the people being referred to with who/whom are plural. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Subject of the sentence=who
Object= whom</p>
<p>My tutor told me something really cool about it idk if you know.</p>
<p>But like you have a sentence for example: “Who(m) do you love?” </p>
<p>look at the part after the who/whom so “do you love” no at the end add “he” or add “him” </p>
<p>So you get “do you love he?” obviously doesn’t make sense. And you also get “do you love him?” which makes sense.</p>
<p>So in this case him makes more sense so it HAS to be WHOM. So its correct to say “Whom do you love?” not “Who do you love?”. If “he” made since instead of “him” it would have to be Who.</p>
<p>I found this to be a pretty cool way to learn that.</p>
<p>and yeah that’s pretty cool SATACT95 but that doesn’t help with plural questions </p>
<p>I found out that instead of using we/us in place of they/them for the he/him- who/whom trcik really owrks it’s worked in all three of these situations</p>
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<p>Brightly lit stations welcomed the public, many
[of them] were skeptical of traveling underground.</p>
<p>In this case of whom was the right answer.
Please explain why?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Similarly, Pei’s design for the center in Dallas, Texas, echoes the aim of city [planners who] wished to revitalize the art district while announcing Dallas’s emergence as an international cultural center</p></li>
<li><p>George believed that while the renting of property produced an increase in land values and benefited property owners; higher land values were placed on the working class, [who] were asked to pay more rent.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>It’s pretty simple.</p>
<p>“Whom ate the pie?”
They ate the pie.</p>
<p>-Here, you use “whom” because “they” performed the action. THEY ate it.</p>
<p>“Who did you meet on the road?”
I met Harry and Sally on the road.</p>
<p>-Here, you use “who” because the “who” refers to people who did not perform the action. The action, “met,” was performed by me. I met THEM.</p>
<p>Also, to answer your question, “whom” must always follow a preposition (of, to, etc).</p>
<p>@andoneforyourmom can you use the three problems I posted and use your trick with them?</p>
<p>For the first one, the preposition “of” is directly before “them” therefore it has to be “whom” since that is a grammatical rule. Prepositions can only be followed by the objective case (whom) not the subjective (who). </p>
<p>For the second one, the city planners are the ones doing the action (wished). Since they are the subjects of the phrase (note: Pei is the subject of the sentence), you must use the SUBJECTive case (who).</p>
<p>To be honest with you, I’m not sure about that last one because the passive voice (were asked) is being used. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that because the passive verb (were asked) refers to the working class then they are the subjects and you must therefore use the subjective case (who).</p>