Grammar girl here, it's time to take another look at a perennial source of confusion and

frustration in English grammar, the pronoun whom.

I talked about whom in episode 44 and episode 98, and I'll give a quick recap to set the

stage here, but if you haven't listened to those yet, or if you're not sure you remember,

you should go back and listen to them to get the most out of today's episode.

In episode 44, who versus whom I covered the basics, whom is the objective case of the

pronoun who, used when who is an object in a sentence instead of a subject.

For example, you'd use who in who loves you, baby, because who is the subject of loves.

But you'd use whom in whom do you love, because whom is the object of love, the object

of affection.

In episode 98, who versus whom advanced, I took on more confusing cases, such as who

do you think did it.

Since there are two verbs in that sentence, think and did, at first you might think it

should be whom do you think did it.

Who isn't the subject of the verb think, but it is the subject of the verb did.

Since it's in the subject position, the correct choice is who.

It's not different from the simple case we just covered.

It's just that the sentence is a little more complicated.

If you're comfortable with everything so far, way to go, you probably know more about

the use of whom than the majority of everyday English speakers.

However, they say a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, and you now know enough

to get in trouble.

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