Dealing decisively with the 'who' versus 'whom' conundrum

By Jose A. Carillo

Dec 07, 2023 12:01 am

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AT about this time in 2014, a Forum member called my attention to this sentence in a newspaper feature article: 'I remember a memorable experience, in the 1970s, with my paternal grandmother, a feisty devout Buddhist living in Davao who I frequently visited.'

He then posed these two questions: 'Is the use of the subjective 'who' in the sentence above correct or acceptable? Or should the objective 'whom' be used instead?'

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