Easy Tricks on Who and Whom Usage

• When you can replace it with he, she or they, use who.
• When you can replace it with him, her or them, use whom.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/who-versus-whom?page=all

 

I have always been mildly confused about this so thank you

 

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/who-versus-whom?page=all

Just click play on the audio player and read along. :)

 

Who is a subject, whom is an object. Works for me.

 

That's also a good trick.

Unfortunately, I don't think everyone always knows what exactly is a subject or an object. For example, an object could also be the subject.

 

So himself becomes whomself?

 

Well, whomself isn't even a word, so not really (neither is whoself).

 

You... didn't already know this?

 

I had trouble with it when I was in high school.

 

I feel genuinely grateful for this because I've read numerous articles on this subject and I could still . . . never . . . get it.

Thanks.​

 

You're forgetting that the subject of a sentence cannot be "him," "her," or "them."

Here's a much better guide.

 

My link already explains that concept.

I worded my OP wrong. I should have said, "When you replace it..."

 

Was joke .

 

Just like effect and affect- one is a noun, the other a verb :3 when I learned that I waas like "FREAKING YAY! LSJHFKBSHDKFH!" but then I forgot which was which, don't worry, I remember sometimes xD

 

And I let it go over my head...

I never really had problems with those.

The way I look at it is that effect is an ailment, like status effects in video games, such as burned, while affect has to do with what we endure, such as, "The effects of poison severely affect the human body."

 

I only use whom when I don't know the name when I'm writing a letter every other time I use who.

 

The spiked drink is likely what effected this situation.


Who vs Whom is one that I know if I stop to think about it, but I really don't care most of the time. I use very little of either in formal English and in colloquial English I always use "who."