Who or Whom کدوم درسته؟

Hey

Hey man

what’s up?

I’m throwing a party for my graduation tonight

you come ?

oh It’s a party tonight!Huh?

Yeah, Big party .

Alright I’m in .

for sure ?

yeah

awesome

who did you invite to the party ?

what did you say?

I said who did you invite to the party !

it’s whom did you invite you moron

“who or whom?”

This is a question

that English language learners often ask themselves.

undefined For example

your friend is having a party tomorrow night

and you want to know

which of your friends have been invited.

So what do you ask?

Who did you invite to your party?

or

Whom did you invite to your party?

According to traditional grammar

there’s only one correct answer.

Here

You should use “whom”

because the people going to the party

are the object of the verb “invite”

and “whom” is the object form of “who”.

But the evidence of language in use

shows that the way we use “who” and “whom”

has changed over the years

so in many cases

the traditional rule no longer applies.

When we look at our corpus

which shows us how people use English around the world

we find that “whom” is mostly used after a preposition such as

“of” or “with”

For example

in this sentence:

There are 25 students in my class

14 of whom are boys.

But “whom”

is almost never used at the beginning of a sentence.

Asking a question like

“whom did you invite”

or

“whom shall I tell about this?”

sounds rather silly and pedantic in most situations

especially in an informal context like this one.

So, both versions are correct

but it would be much more natural to ask

“Who did you invite…?”

Now it’s your turn

to give us some examples in the comment section.

I’m Mojtaba Hayati

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