Who or Whom - Many writers find it confusing to make the correct choice

Due attention must be paid to avoid grammatical mistakes for effective communication.




In a newspaper article touching on people with disabilities, the following question appears on its sub-headline, "Who then can the disabled turn to for help?"

You can answer the question in order to know whether "who" or "whom" is to be used.

Can the answer be 'The disabled can turn to "he" for help'? Obviously, the answer is not correct grammatically as the pronoun after the preposition "to" cannot be in the subjective case. It must be in the objective case which is "him".

The said question should, therefore, be "Whom then can the disabled turn to for help?"


If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
-- Chinese Proverb