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Cashtanchik Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Who or whom

Hello!

Please, help!

Is it correct if I say:

"Patients whom you recommend various methods of contraception to"?

Or it should be who?

Thank you.
  

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"Whom" is correct, and it is still permissible there in highly formal writing, I think. "Whom" is dying, and it is normally seen only immediately after a preposition. "Patients to whom you recommend various methods of contraception" is probably better, anyway, because the reader has to wait a long time for that "to" the other way.

— Enoon

  • "Whom" is correct, and it is still permissible there in highly formal writing, I think.
  • "Whom" is dying, and it is normally seen only immediately after a preposition.
  • "Patients to whom you recommend various methods of contraception" is probably better, anyway, because the reader has to wait a long time for that "to" the other way.
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"Whom" is correct, and it is still permissible there in highly formal writing, I think. "Whom" is dying, and it is normally seen only immediately after a preposition. "Patients to whom you recommend various methods of contraception" is probably better, anyway, because the reader has to wait a long time for that "to" the other way.
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CashtanchikPatients whom you recommend various methods of contraception to
With to all the way at the end, whom looks rather silly there.

Use either

parents who you recommend various methods of contraception to (informal)

or

parents to whom you recommend various methods of contraception (f
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