Luke Taylor  Grammar Grater®  with Luke Taylor  Episode 12: Who
are You?  Sometimes there are things in the English language
that are just, well...icky. One of those things is
distinguishing when to use who or whom. There are some tricks
that can help with this. Even better, it appears change may be
on the horizon.  The grammatical explanations of these words
declare who is the subject pronoun and whom is the object
pronoun. But those descriptions don't do a whole lot to help us
decide when to use which word. Fortunately, the answer is in the
question. Seriously. If we were doing algebra, it's kind of like
rearranging an equation to isolate X in order to determine the
value of X.  If the question can be answered who a word like
"he" or "she," then the word who is appropriate. Here's a
helpful trick: "he" and "she" both end in vowels, just like who.
The word whom uses a similar trick. Don't think it's sexist, but
if the question can be answered with "him," then the right word
is whom. The memory trick here is