whom
pronoun
formaluk/huːm/us/huːm/B2
usedinsteadof "who" as theobjectof averborpreposition:
（作宾语时代替 who）Imeta man with whom I used towork.我碰见了个过去曾一起工作的人。
He took out aphotoof hisson, whom headores.他拿出了一张爱子的照片。
There were 500passengers, of whom 121drowned.500名乘客中共有121名溺水身亡。
To whom do youwishtospeak?你想找谁接电话？
- Hisstrongestcriticismisreservedfor hisfather, whom hedislikedintensely.
- They have twogrownchildren, both of whomliveabroad.
- He was verycontemptuousof 'popular'writers, whom hedescribedas having notalent.
- Many ofourdistantcousins, whom we hadn'tseenforyears, came to my sister'swedding.
- Shedislikedthepresident, whom sheoncedescribedas an 'insufferablebore'.
Linguistics: relative forms
- howsoever
- or
- that
- what
- whatever
- whence
- whenever
- where
- whereby
- whereof
- wheresoever
- wherever
- which
- whichever
- whomever
- whose
- whosoever
- wot
Grammar
Questions: interrogative pronouns (what,who)
We use interrogative pronouns to ask questions. They are: who, which, whom, what and whose. These are also known as wh-words. Questions using these are called wh-questions:…Interrogative pronouns: uses
We use who and whom on their own:…Relative pronouns
Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of relative clause.…Relative pronouns:whom
We use whom in formal styles or in writing to refer to people when the person is the object of the verb. It is much more common in writing than in speaking:…No relative pronoun
In informal styles, we often leave out the relative pronoun. We only do this in defining relative clauses, and when the relative pronoun is the object of the verb. We don’t leave out the relative pronoun when it is the subject of the verb nor in non-defining relative clauses:…Relative pronouns: typical errors
We can’t use that instead of who, whom or which in non-defining relative clauses:…Who,whom
Who and whom are wh-words. We use them to ask questions and to introduce relative clauses.…Whoas a question word
We use who as an interrogative pronoun to begin questions about people:…Emphatic questions withwhoeverandwho on earth
We can ask emphatic questions using whoever or who on earth to express shock or surprise. We stress ever and earth:…Whoin relative clauses
We use who as a relative pronoun to introduce a relative clause about people:…Whom
Whom is the object form of who. We use whom to refer to people in formal styles or in writing, when the person is the object of the verb. We don’t use it very often and we use it more commonly in writing than in speaking.…