Gehalgod • 8 yr. ago. I think it's probably because the English language doesn't rely on inflections anymore, unlike other European languages. Word order has become rather inflexible, and so it doesn't really matter whether one says "who" or "whom" because the meaning of the word depends 100% on the syntax. You will meet the student whose favorite class is Business Communication. Whose indicates ownership or possession and relates to student. NOTE: Do not use who’s, the contraction for who is, for the possessive whose. How to Troubleshoot In your mind, substitute a she or her, or a he or him, for the who or the whom. e.g., Who can always replace whom in a sentence, except in formal usage. Similarly, both who and that can be used for people, but who is preferred in formal usage. Finally, who’s and whose cannot be used interchangeably: who’s is a contraction of “who is” or “who has,” while whose is a possessive. How do you decide to use "who" or "whom"? The two—as you’ll recall from English class—are related and may seem interchangeable. But are they really? Using Whom. Whom is an object pronoun and as a result, is the object in sentences and phrases. Other object pronouns are me, you, him, her, us, and them. This means whom takes the place of nouns that receive the action. In direct questions, whom is used to find out which person is receiving the action. Objek dari adjective clause. “He knew the person whose house we bought. “Whose” menunjukkan kepunyaan dari House. “Whom” = Kurang umum. Saat ini kata “Whom” jadi kurang umum penggunaannya dalam bahasa Inggris. Sekarang ini trennya lebih suka menggunakan “Who” sebagai objek ganti dibandingkan “Whom”. How to use the words 'who', 'whom', 'that', 'which', 'where'. Relative pronouns and relative adverbs introduce relative clauses. 'Who' - 'whose' - 'whom' - 'that' and 'which' - are relative pronouns. 'Where' is a relative adverb. There is often confusion about the use of who, whose,whom, that, which or where. 7O7nom.

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