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Whom vs Them - What's the difference?

whom | them |

As pronouns the difference between whom and them

is that whom is what person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb while them is Objective case of they: third personal plural pronoun used after a preposition or as the object of a verb.

As a determiner them is

those.

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.
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  • 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

    Statistics

    * English interrogative pronouns English relative pronouns

    them

    English

    (wikipedia them)

    Pronoun

    • Give it to them . (after preposition)
    She wrote them a letter. (indirect object)
    She treated them for a cold. (direct object)
    • If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them . (after preposition)
    If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner. (indirect object)
    If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them . (direct object)
  • * 1611 , King James Bible , :
    • If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, [t]hen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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    • Usage notes

    * Regarding the use of singular them , see they .

    Related terms

    * their * theirs * they * themself * themselves

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (dialectal) those
  • * 2005 , Elmer Kelton, Sons of Texas , Tor/Forge (2005), page 111:
    • " Them two wild horses ain't fit to ride, and I been wonderin' how I was goin' to get you out of this place before them Spanish maybe circle back and finish the job."
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    • Them kids need to grow up.

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    Anagrams

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