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Who vs Whom

04 Jul 2026

Who
--> Who refers to the subject (the person performing the action)
--> कौन (the doer)

Example:
In questions:
1) Who ate all the apples?
2) Who took my keys?
3) Who is at the door?
4) Who needs a paper?

In direct questions and statements -
1) Can you tell me who the owner is?
2) She asked me who was on duty?

To introduce relative clauses -
1) The suspect is the who who is wearing a grey shirt.
2) She is the woman who owns this hotel

Whom
--> Whom refers to the object (the person receiving the action)
--> किसे/किसको: The receiver

Example:
As the object of question -
Whom did the committee appoint?

With prepositions -
1) Send it to whom it may concern.
2) Tell us where you went and with whom?

When preceded by quantifiers: (all, most...)
the girls, all of whom were alive, were found.

In relative clauses:
She gave bith to boy whom she called Sam.

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