{"id":3473867,"date":"2026-08-26T04:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/glossary\/who-whom\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:50:33","slug":"who-whom","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/glossary\/who-whom\/","title":{"rendered":"Who \/ whom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho\u201d is a pronoun used as the subject of a sentence; \u201cwhom\u201d is a pronoun used as the object of a\u00a0sentence.\u00a0When in doubt, remember that \u201cwhom\u201d and the pronoun \u201chim\u201d both end in \u201cm.\u201d Ask yourself if the hypothetical answer to the question would contain \u201che\u201d (\u201cshe\u201d) or \u201chim\u201d (\u201cher\u201d). If it\u2019s \u201chim,\u201d use \u201cwhom\u201d (both ending in \u201cm\u201d). Correct: <em>Who was that masked man?<\/em> (\u201cHe was that masked man.\u201d) Incorrect: <em>Whom was that masked man?<\/em> (\u201cHim was that masked man.\u201d) Correct: <em>Brother William is the monk to whom I am most indebted<\/em> (\u201cI am most indebted to him,\u201d not \u201cI am most loyal to he\u201d). <em>See also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/articles\/who-versus-whom\/\">\u201cWho Versus Whom\u201d by Mignon Fogarty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho\u201d is a pronoun used as the subject of a sentence; \u201cwhom\u201d is a pronoun used as the object of a sentence. 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If it\u2019s \u201chim,\u201d use \u201cwhom\u201d (both ending in \u201cm\u201d). Correct: <em>Who was that masked man?<\/em> (\u201cHe was that masked man.\u201d) Incorrect: <em>Whom was that masked man?<\/em> (\u201cHim was that masked man.\u201d) Correct: <em>Brother William is the monk to whom I am most indebted<\/em> (\u201cI am most indebted to him,\u201d not \u201cI am most loyal to he\u201d). <em>See also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/articles\/who-versus-whom\/\">\u201cWho Versus Whom\u201d by Mignon Fogarty<\/a><\/p>","acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"glossary-categories":[{"value":1976,"label":"Writing Style Guide"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jeremy Tackett","author_link":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/author\/jtackett\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474769,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473867\/revisions\/3474769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=3473867"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=3473867"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=3473867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}