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Guest  #78787  Sun, 06 Mar 05 12:56 AM
When do you use "who" or "whom"? ie I can talk to who/whom ever I want?
  
cacarr  #78791  Sun, 06 Mar 05 01:20 AM
"Who" is the subject form of the pronoun and "whom" is the object form.

Prescriptively speaking: I can talk to whomever I want.

"Whom" is increasingly rare in spoken registers, but is expected in written English. In casual spoken English you are likely to hear it only after a preposition, if then...

  
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