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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

That's it. That's exactly how it works. People act like using whom instead of who is fancy, but it's really no more complicated than knowing the difference between he and him or she and her.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I just assume that if what you're referring to is "them", it's "whom".

I cannot learn otherwise, I am too stupid.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, them = whom and they = who.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thank fuck, I was not joking

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Is it the thing that's doing the verb? Then it's who. Otherwise whom.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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)

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