{"id":440,"date":"2006-08-07T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T01:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2006-08-07T18:35:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T01:35:22","slug":"who-versus-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/07\/who-versus-whom\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Versus Whom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I start many letters with &#8220;To Whom It May Concern&#8221; and usually this is the only time I used the word &#8220;whom&#8221; in a sentence.  When writing an email today, I was stuck as to whether to use who or whom.  So, I did some digging and got my answer.<br \/>\nA) <strong>Who:<\/strong> when the pronoun acts as the subject of the clause, use who.  For example: The prize goes to the runner who collects the most points.  [Who does the action of collecting.]<br \/>\nB) <strong>Whom:<\/strong> When the pronoun acts as the object of the clause, use whom.  For example: The tutor to whom I was assigned was very supportive.  [Whom is the object of the preposition to.]<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t tell a subject from an object, you can replace who\/whom with he\/him. If he sounds right, use who; if him is right, use whom. For example: since he did it and not him did it, use who did it; since we give something to him and not to he, use to whom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I start many letters with &#8220;To Whom It May Concern&#8221; and usually this is the only time I used the word &#8220;whom&#8221; in a sentence. When writing an email today, I was stuck as to whether to use who or whom. So, I did some digging and got my answer. A) Who: when the pronoun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[360,381,674],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-language","tag-literature","tag-versus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}