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modirh
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Who or Whom on Question

by modirh Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:37 pm

The study guide asked to correct the following sentence:
" We enjoy meeting people having different interests"

The official correct sentence is listed as:

"We enjoy meeting people who have different interests"

My question is: shouldn't the "who" actually be "whom"??
We is the subject and people are the object - so I thought "whom have different interests" is correct.
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Re: Who or Whom on Question

by jainankit1 Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:23 pm

Who or whom has to be seen as the subject or object in the relative clause.
For the above sentence it will be People have different interests. So it is the subject of the relative clause. Therefore, who is correctly used here
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Re: Who or Whom on Question

by Ben Ku Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:33 am

jain is correct. if we just take a look at the modifying clause, "who have different interests ...". We can replace "who" with "he": "he has different interests." It's clear that this pronoun is the subject, not object of the person with different interests.

Hope that helps.
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