Who or Whom

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Who or Whom
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Who

• Is a subject pronoun.
• Who or what the sentence is about.
• Usually comes at the beginning of a sentence.
• Who just came in the door?
• Who gave that to you?

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Whom

• Is an object pronoun.
• Usually follows a preposition (to, for, from,
  with)
• To whom are you referring to?
• You loaned your book to whom?

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Examples

• (Who or whom) did you see at Lake Erie?
• From (who, whom) did you learn about it?
• (Who, whom) will rent us a boat here?
• (Who, whom) knows where to catch fish?
• To (who, whom) did you write this morning?
• Tomorrow (who, whom) will travel with us?
• With (who, whom) will you walk to the market?

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• 1. __________ was the thoughtful person?
• For ______________ have they scheduled the
  swimming party?
• Do you know ________ arranged the flowers?
• _______ will be willing to drive tonight?
• I dont know ________ gave you the present.
• I wonder to ______ I should send the note.
• There are a lot of people _____ really like our
  teacher.
• Many of the people _____ came to the party had a
  great time.

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Assignment

• Workbook p.131
• Textbook p. 91
• Write a letter to a child in another country
  without using any pronouns. In the letter, tell
  them about yourself, school, life in the US, etc.
  It should be at least a page long.