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minus-squarepocopene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoThat’s fine and all. But I see a lot of randomness in the use of its/it’s, their/there, etc. And this who/whom thing seems like orders of magnitude harder to grasp.
minus-squareHeuristicAlgorithm9@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoIn case you did actually want to know the rule. Who is used to refer to the subject of the sentence and whom is for the object of the sentence.
That’s fine and all. But I see a lot of randomness in the use of its/it’s, their/there, etc. And this who/whom thing seems like orders of magnitude harder to grasp.
In case you did actually want to know the rule. Who is used to refer to the subject of the sentence and whom is for the object of the sentence.