One for the grammer Police.

[Fort Jefferson]

Who or Whom ?

When do you use one, and not the other ?

This is a question, not a quiz.

[tonym911]

Thread title - fish - barrel - shotgun.

[jamesson]

Grammar

No spaces between words and question marks.

"Who" is subjective.

"Whom" is known as the dative.

Gobbledegook, I know.

[tonym911]

Head above the parapet here: whom if something is being done to someone (they're the object of an action), who for the rest.

[Marf]

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for the OP.

[SteveO...]

Listen to the 'South Sea Bubble' sketch from Not The 9 O'Clock News.

[JohnnyJones]

I have no idea what you mean.

Unless you are talking about the 'Grammar Police'?

[Soovy]

This went SO SO well didn't it?

[Hugo a Gogo]

whom - him

who - he

rearrange the question to a statement, with 'him' or 'he' - there's your answer

[NoNeed]

Who asked this question and to whom should the answer be directed?

[WhoseGeneration]

NoNeed said:

Who asked this question and to whom should the answer be directed?

The one who is the OP is the one of whom you are speaking.
Having said that, informal speech tends to not require the correct usage.
However, PH, formal language matters?

[whirligig]

Hugo a Gogo said:

whom - him

who - he

rearrange the question to a statement, with 'him' or 'he' - there's your answer

That's a nice, neat way of remembering it.

[NoNeed]

WhoseGeneration said:

NoNeed said:

Who asked this question and to whom should the answer be directed?

The one who is the OP is the one of whom you are speaking.
Having said that, informal speech tends to not require the correct usage.
However, PH, formal language matters?

Very good, now go and sit at the back and give the thickheads a chance

[Edinburger]

Hugo a Gogo said:

whom - him

who - he

rearrange the question to a statement, with 'him' or 'he' - there's your answer

So let's await a conversation to go:

"Who said that?"
"It was whom over there"

(I'm being facetious)

[captainzep]

This may not be helpful but in Old English the equivalent was 'womb' or 'womble'.

[Fort Jefferson]

Thanks for the sensible answers, I understand now.

[WhoseGeneration]

captainzep said:

This may not be helpful but in Old English the equivalent was 'womb' or 'womble'.

"womble", oh dear, Old English for seven is?

[captainzep]

WhoseGeneration said:

captainzep said:

This may not be helpful but in Old English the equivalent was 'womb' or 'womble'.

"womble", oh dear, Old English for seven is?

"Whittaker"