Verbal | Some Notes on Pronouns

[accordion=Does Who always refer to the subject and Whom always refer to the object?]

NO.

Who can refer to and thus modify ANY noun in a sentence (of course, within the constraints of the rules of noun modifiers), andWhom can also refer to and thus modify ANY noun in a sentence (within the constraints of the rules of noun modifiers).

The difference between Who and Whomlies

• not in which nouns they canmodify
• but in what Who and Whom do within their ownclauses

The difference isthat

• Who can be the subject or the object of its ownclause
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