What's the Proper Use of "Who" and "Whom"?

[Yavin4]

I admit that I don't know.

[smitty]

1. I don't know either, and it's really bugging me.

[tigereye]

2. I thought that who was for the subject of the clause

and whom for the object. But grammar classes were many years ago, so I could be wrong.

[liontamer]

4. correct

[tigereye]

10. so Catholic school did count for something!

:hi:

I always insert a name or noun where the who or whom should be and that helps me to see which is which.

[liontamer]

15. that's a great tool, but only if you've been exposed to proper grammar in the past

doesn't help sometimes, especially for ESL people

[tigereye]

17. all those crazy referrents!

I have a friend who teaches ESL and I work with kids who have problems with abstract language, so I hear about this stuff all the tiem.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Use the word

Who when you want to hear "My Generation" :)
Use the word Whom when you want to read For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Seriously, I don't know.........

[liontamer]

5. Who does something to whom

Who is the subjective case, whom is the objective case pronoun

[trof]

6. Use "who" in the nominative case.

"Whom" in the objective.
:-)
Who is going?
To whom are you speaking.

[mvd]

9. That looks correct to me

[billyskank]

18. You got it

"The person who will be picked for..."
"The person whom will recieve..."

[ForrestGump]

7. No, What's on second.

Who's on first.

[montanto]

14. and I don't know's on third? is that it? nt

[Roon]

8. I always thought that "who" was singular

and "whom" was plural..i guess i was wrong

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Trof in #6 is correct

"Who" is the subject of the sentence: "Who are you?" "Who can read this?"
"Whom" is the object of a verb or preposition, although this distinction is being lost in conversational English, especially in the "object of a verb" slot.

"To whom am I speaking?"
"With whom did you go?"
"You saw whom?" (This one sounds odd even to me, the fussy old editor and advocate for a distinction between "lie" and "lay.")

[Crabby Appleton]

11. A who is a resident of Whoville

[Generator]

13. LOL at that

My answer is: who cares?

[democracyindanger]

16. Easy. Answer with "him."

Say the question is, "Who knows the time?" The answer would be, "He knows the time." So 'who' is correct.

Or, for example, say the question is, "Who does this belong to?" The answer would be, "It belongs to him."--not "It belongs to he." So the correct form would be "Whom does this belong to?"

[Hugin]

19. There's got to be some sort of a mnemonic which covers this...

Like, "I before E except after C" or "SOHCAHTOA" or "The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly On The Plain".

Anyone?