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Do You Know this Tip for Effective Business Writing? Pesky Pronoun Problems: The Who/Whom Dilemma

Try this surefire technique to decide when to use who and whom. Substitute he/she for who (nominative case) and him/her for whom (objectie case). Read the new sentence aloud, and you will hear whicih pronoun is correct.

Example: Give the bill to who/whom?

Give the bill to he? (You know this isn't correct.)
Give the bill to him? (This sounds correct.)
Give the bill to whom? (The objective case is the correct choice.)