I have a quick question in this sentence would you use who or whom?
I have expectations of whom you wed
This is not in a story but this is purely for learning the rules of using whom.
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Sign up to join this communityI have a quick question in this sentence would you use who or whom?
I have expectations of whom you wed
This is not in a story but this is purely for learning the rules of using whom.
Although 'whom' is falling from usage, 'whom' refers to the object, 'who' to the subject.... so you'd say "to whom did you give the money?" or "Who loves you the most?" 'who' goes with 'he' and 'she'. 'whom goes with 'him' and 'her'
I think that the problem here is the word "expectations". It really is not in common use and cannot but remind readers of the Dickens novel, in which expectations refer, in part to a rich inheritance.
If you mean something like "I expect a lot from the person whom you shall wed" then that is grammatically correct, and, yes, "whom" not "who" because the word refers to the person "from..." which can only be "whom". You just cannot say in formal English "...from who..."
That is not to say that you would not hear just those words every day in informal speech.