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those | whom |

As pronouns the difference between those and whom

is that those is plural of lang=en while whom is what person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.

As a determiner those

is plural of lang=en.

those

English

Determiner

(en determiner)
  • * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1
    • Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.}}

    Antonyms

    * these

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)

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    whom

    English

    (wikipedia whom)

    Alternative forms

    * whome (obsolete)

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.
  • *
  • What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a preposition.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom , even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
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  • Him; her; them (used as a relative pronoun to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
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    • Usage notes

    (Usage examples) Subject (always who ): : Who ate my sandwich? : There is the thief who ate my sandwich. :: i.e. The thief ate my sandwich. Direct object: : Who(m) did you see? : I saw an old friend who(m) I had not seen for years. :: i.e. I saw an old friend . Indirect object: : Who(m) are you giving your apple to? : She is the angel who(m) I'm giving my apple to. :: or : To whom are you giving your apple?'' (fronted prepositional phrase, almost always ''whom ) : She is the angel to whom I'm giving my apple. :: i.e. I'm giving my apple to her .

    Derived terms

    * to whom it may concern * to whom this may concern * whomever * whom're

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    * English interrogative pronouns English relative pronouns