Gamer Girl here, this week I have two quick and dirty tips.

One about who versus whom, and one about the word pre-order, and a tidbit about weasels,

ferrets, and badgers.

And now onto who versus whom.

When you're trying to figure out whether to use who or whom, it helps to know the difference

between subjects and objects, because 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.

In other words, who is the subject pronoun, and whom is an object pronoun?

Here's a simple explanation.

The subject of a sentence is doing something, and the object of the sentence is having something

done to it.

For example, if squiggly calls ardvarck, then squiggly is the subject because he's the

one doing the calling.

And ardvarck is the object because he's the one being called.

Squiggly is the subject because he's taking action.

And ardvarck is the object because he's the recipient of the action.

Okay, my guess is that when people ask about who are whom, most of the time they're really

just curious about whom, because that's the less common word.

You tend to look at sentences and think, is this where I need a whom?

Not is this where I need a who?

So remember to use whom when you're referring to the object of a sentence.

For example, it's whom did you squish?

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