Mega-Stupid Question:

Whom is the direct object of a verb, who is a subject.

Example 1: Sara, whom I''m going to give flowers to, ...
Example 2: Sara, who will get flowers from me, ...

All sounds fairly arbitrary and pointless to me.

Whom is used when you want to sound smart. Also whenever Word underlines who with a squiggly green line.

CM

English distinguishes between subject and object pronouns. Think ''he'' vs. ''him'' or ''she'' vs. ''her''. This is exactly the same as ''who'' vs. ''whom''.

Using this in interrogatives ("For whom is that memo?" as opposed to "Who is that memo for?") has fallen somewhat out of favor, but it''s still a good idea to use ''whom'' properly in subordinate clauses ("Joe is a fighter, for whom pain is a way of life.").

The problem with "whom" is it''s really hard to say. You sort of have to slow down your speech and draw out the "mmm" for one second to make it clear you''re saying it, and it sounds really dumb. I think the reason it fell out of favor was just because it sounds like one is saying "who" even if they''re not, unless they put effort into making it clear like I described.

~CGameProgrammer( );

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