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Who/Whom or Whoever/Whomever??

 
 
Reply Mon 30 Jul, 2007 12:00 am
The use of Who/Whom has always confused me. Should I say 'Who are you going out with?' or 'Whom are you going out with?'.

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Reply Mon 30 Jul, 2007 12:13 am
The correct form is "Whom are you going out with?"

"Who" is used when the word is meant as a subject; "whom" is used when the word is meant as an object. In cases where the sentence is a question, one helpful way to look at it is to rewrite the sentence as a statement. For example, your sentence, "Who/whom are you going out with?", if rewritten as a statement, would look like this: "You are going out with who/whom." When it is written as a statement rather than a question, it is easier to see that the "who/whom" is an object rather than a subject (because the subject of the sentence is clearly "you"). Hence, the sentence should take the objective form: "whom."
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