Follow up on when to use who, whom

In my last posting of September 28, I mentioned that the use of “who” or “whom” had confused many including experienced writers who would often go wrong if they were not vigilant enough.

Below are some examples noticed in a newspaper and are listed to help illustrating the correct usages.

(A) You married a man whom you believe you love despite family objections.

(B) The first version was that Chew had scolded Lim's friends whom he felt had taken advantage of his buddy.

(C) Inspector Saad was in CID and had a girlfriend, whom we believed he got pregnant.

These "you believe", "he felt" and "we believed" appearing in the above three sentences are all parenthetical clauses or parentheses, which, if noted by you and taken away, will help you to determine whether the three whom's are used correctly.

In (A), the test question is "you love him" or "you love he". Obviously, the former is correct and hence "whom" is correctly used.

In (B), which is correct - them had taken advantage or they had taken advantage? The pronoun "they" is clearly the only choice and so, "whom" therein should be "who".

In (C), you ask "he got her pregnant" or he got she pregnant". Needless to say, the former is the right one and so is the "whom" in the sentence.