Grammar girl here. Who in whom have to be two of the most difficult words in English?

Luckily, we've already spent two episodes on the ins and outs. Unfortunately, though,

some people are still confused. They may even find themselves agreeing with William

Sapphire, who apparently once said, when whom is correct, recast the sentence. Well, although

we might not like home, we should probably keep it around. Today, we're delving into

yet one more difficult sentence involving who or whom. But first, let's review what

we already know. In the first episode about who and whom, we learned that you use who

when you're referring to the subject of a clause, and whom when you're referring to the

object of a clause. We explained that the main problem isn't the word who, because most

people don't go around throwing unneeded homes into their sentences. So remember you

use whom when you're referring to the object of a clause. We ended the episode with this

helpful tip, like whom the pronoun him ends with the letter M. When you're trying to

decide whether to use who or whom, ask yourself if the answer to the question could be he

or him. That's the trick. If you can answer the question being asked with him, use whom,

and it's easy to remember because they both end with the letter M. The second episode

about whom and whom wrestled with this more difficult sentence. We never did meet his

teammate, who he said works the room in his absence. This sentence requires the word

who, not whom. You need to ignore the words he said and just deal with the clause who

works the room. Whom works the room doesn't make sense. And if you apply the him tip

from the first episode about this topic, you ask yourself which person works the room.

The answer to the question is his teammate. He works the room, so we can still use the

trick to tell that who is correct. Now we'll move on to the tricky sentence that concerns

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