Which is correct?
I am the person with whom ________ resides with.
or
I am the person with who ________ resides with.
Which is correct?
I am the person with whom ________ resides with.
or
I am the person with who ________ resides with.
I agree. That's what I told the girl. She didn't believe me though.
Her argument was the phrase, "To "whom" it may concern".
I used the he/him explanation to her as well.
It would be: it concerns "him", (not "he"), therefore it would be "whom",
but in the other case, "he" resides with me (not "him" resides with me", therefore it would be who.
Thanks for your input.
I'll rewrite an entire sentance just to avoid a grammar issue.
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The grammar checker prefers the first one... whom over who.
Agree on dropping the 'with.'
Agree with rewriting the sentence, e.g., I live with ___________.
http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQWe4AodImsAmQ
I say "whom" is correct. Object of a preposition.
WHO is a subjective-case pronoun, and can be used only for subjects and subject complements. WHOM is an objective-case pronoun and can be used only for objects.
These words are used primarily in subordinate clauses or questions.
(according to Pocket Manual of Style (second edition), by Diana Hacker)
In other words, you use WHO if it is used as the Subject. And you use WHOM if it is the OBJECT.
Dee, I wondered where you might be - great to see part of the old gang show up.
My children are my legacy.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
If you use the he/him trick, the correct sentence would be "I am the person "he" resides with".
You wouldn't say "I am the person "him" resides with.
So why wouldn't it be "who"?
I agree the sentence was poorly constructed from the start. That seems to be the way businesses operate sometimes. I believe they think its more "business like" to sound confusing sometimes. At least that's how it seems to me whenever I get an e-mail from HR or other office personel.
Horton Hears a Whom?No way.
I'd drop the last with.
To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough, and morality enough, to cut off the chain of hate. ~~ MLK
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