Using ‘Who’ or ‘Whom’ – ESL Lesson

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Choose the correct option.

  ____________ will you ask to help you with all this work?

 Who

 Whom

____________ is responsible for this decision?

 Who

 Whom

_________ is going to support the new team?

 Who

 0Whom

To ____________ should I address this question?

 Who

 Whom

________ sent you that letter?

 Who

 Whom

_______ has left the fridge door open again?

 Who

 Whom

________ did he punish yesterday?

 Who

 Whom

_________ are you staring at?

 Who

 Whom

________ is the smartest in your class?

 Who

 Whom

________ are you meeting today?

 Who

 Whom

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Question 1 of 10

In this lesson, you will learn how to use ‘who’ and ‘whom’ correctly. A lot of people get confused when they have to use these words, as they do not know which one is appropriate when they want to ask something about a person.

 ‘Who’ is used to ask which person does an action or which person is a certain way.

• Example 01 : Who baked the cake? (which person is performing the action of ‘baking’)
• Example 02 : Who left the door open?
• Example 03 : Who is taller, John or Maria? (which person is a certain way ‘taller’)

‘Whom’ is used to ask which person receives an action.

• Example 01 : Whom did John hire? (which person received the action of being ‘hired)
• Example 02 : Whom are you inviting?
• Example 03 : Whom did he blame for the theft?