Whom am I speaking with?
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Whom am I speaking with?
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#2I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
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#3I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
How does the article get it right? If the answer can be "him", the question should be "whom", and if the answer can be "he", the question should be "who". Having said that, "Whom am I speaking with?" does sound pretty weird, "With whom am I speaking?" sounds much better.
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#4That's pretty neat -- sounds really useful for trying to better address a customer.
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#5I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
I can't decide if this comment is a troll or not. "Whom" is grammatically correct.
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#6I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
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#7I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
How does the article get it right? If the answer can be "him", the question should be "whom", and if the answer can be "he", the question should be "who". Having said that, "Whom am I speaking with?" does sound pretty weird, "With whom am I speaking?" sounds much better.
Who is a subjective pronoun. Whom is an objective pronoun.
First hit off the Google: http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html
Doesn't matter really, just made my brain twitch when I read it.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does the article get it right? If the answer can be "him", the question should be "whom", and if the answer can be "he", the question should be "who". Having said that, "Whom am I speaking with?" does sound pretty weird, "With whom am I speaking?" sounds much better.
Who is a subjective pronoun. Whom is an objective pronoun. First hit off the Google: http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html Doesn't matter really, just made my brain twitch when I read it.
Me too, but that's because the implied preposition makes the word order look funny. The subject of the title sentence is "I".
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#9I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
I can't decide if this comment is a troll or not. "Whom" is grammatically correct.
I think it sounds odd because it's disconnected from its preposition.
In fact, I'm not sure I've ever heard a sentence starting with "whom."
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#10The winner is: With whom am I speaking?
You wouldn't say, "The car am I driving in?". And you should avoid dangling prepositions. If your sentence (or clause) ends in a preposition, it is either extraneous, or your sentence requires rewording.