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Do you know anyone else (who, whom) will get hired today? Should this be who or whom?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
"who" because it is the subject of the verb "will get hired".
You use "whom" to replace the object of the verb, so you can try substituting a pronoun and see what kind of pronoun you would use.
"He will get hired today" = "Who will get hired today?" (he= who)
"They will hire him today" - "Whom will they hire today?" (him=whom)
- Anonymous5 years ago
I would enjoy modern sports a lot more if I felt that every player went out there with Ty Cobb's mentality of the other team being the enemy and you try to win at all costs. Your comparison of eras works well beyond the realm of sports though. We could say today's people are more pampered and whinier in general. That's why we're able to sit on the internet today and discuss this subject instead of doing something more important. Why shouldn't the athletes take their millions and do the same?
- 1 decade ago
No this is easy. People don't use it because they never learned how to.
Whom is for an indirect object or governed by a preposition.
"In whom we trust"
With whom did you speak?
In your sentence who/who is the subject of the verb cluster "will get hired" so it must be who
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- protexyaLv 71 decade ago
A continuing debate in English usage is the question of when to use who and when to use whom.
whom is coreect in this case.
According to formal grammar, who forms the subjective case and so should be used in subject position in a sentence, as in who decided this? The form whom, on the other hand, forms the objective case and so should be used in object position in a sentence, as in whom do you think we should support?; to whom do you wish to speak? Although there are some speakers who still use who and whom according to the rules of formal grammar as stated here , there are many more who rarely use whom at all; its use has retreated steadily and is now largely restricted to formal contexts. The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom (and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence): who do you wish to speak to?; who do you think we should support? Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English
- Anonymous1 decade ago
who i think