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English 1b3 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

To who relative clauses

After losing her job, she approached a company who approached her, but whom she declined for an interview as she already got the job at Christina Appletons.

Is this grammatical?
  

Top answer

No. You need to say eg . .

— Clive

  • No.
  • You need to say eg .
  • .
  • with whom she declined an interview .
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No. You need to say
eg . . . with whom she declined an interview . . .

But really your whole sentence needs rewording.
What does this mean? . . . she approached a company who approached her . . .
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... she approached a company that had previously approached her, but with whom she had (at that time) declined an interview...

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English 1b3she approached a company ..., but whom she declined
It looks like you're trying to make a company a person if you use whom. You should probably reword it so that you are declining the interview, not the company, and use which.

CJ
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Thank you. Barbara's stab at what I was trying to say is correct.
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But I agree that "which" is better than "whom"
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