I recently learned (in my mid-40s) that I’ve been figuring this out the hard way most of my life.
I always diagram the sentence in my head, as in: The subject is fear, the object is Rush, so it’s ‘whom.’
My wife has a simple grammar rule that if him/her works then it’s whom, if she/he fits better then it’s who.
I feel like my primary school teachers did me dirty.
I recently learned (in my mid-40s) that I’ve been figuring this out the hard way most of my life.
I always diagram the sentence in my head, as in: The subject is fear, the object is Rush, so it’s ‘whom.’
My wife has a simple grammar rule that if
him/herworks then it’s whom, ifshe/hefits better then it’s who.I feel like my primary school teachers did me dirty.
Is it the thing that’s doing the verb? Then it’s who. Otherwise whom.
I just assume that if what you’re referring to is “them”, it’s “whom”.
I cannot learn otherwise, I am too stupid.
Yeah, them = whom and they = who.
Thank fuck, I was not joking
It’s always great to learn more. Next you can relearn colons.
“In modern English usage, a complete sentence precedes a colon, while a list, description, explanation, or definition follows it.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)