Who, Maybe Whom
rogersgeorge on July 10th, 2023
“Who” appears in all three panels. Are they correct?
Ready for the answers?
Panel 1: correct. “who” is the subject of the clause, which is nominative, so “who.”
Panel 2: incorrect! The object of a preposition (“to”) should be in the objective case, so “whom.”
Panel 3: correct. “who” is a predicate nominative (after “that is”), so “who.”
So how did you do?
PS—I found another example of a wrong “whom.” Second panel. The “whomever” is the subject of the sentence, so it should be “whoever”:
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