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The answer to "what" is a thing.
The answer to "whom" is a person.
The pronoun "whom" functions as the object of a verb or a preposition.
The corresponding pronoun "who" functions as the subject of sentence or a clause.
The pronoun "what" functions as a subject or an object in a sentence.
Joe Johnston
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∙ 9y agoA question with 'what' as the subject is answered with a noun for a thing.
A question with 'whom' as an object of a preposition is answered with a noun for a person.
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What is a noun that answers to whom or for whom?
Give the letter to Mary. to whom?The letter is for Mary. for whom?
What answers to What or Whom?
What is used for things. Whom is used for a person.
What are indirect objects?
A noun that answers the question "To Whom?" ot "To What?" or "For Whom?" or "For What?"
What answers what or whom in a?
Proper nouns
What Answers the question whom or what?
an indirect object
What is the Greek definition of whom?
Whom = ος / η / ο . Hope that answers your question.
What literary term answers what or whom?
In terms of sentence construction it is called the 'subject'.
What word receives the action of the verb and answers the question what or whom?
The word that receives the action of the verb and answers the question "what" or "whom" is called the direct object.
When god the father answers ou request whom does he work through?
the holy spirit
Find the indirect object of this sentences. Sally threw Michelle a birthday pary after the ballgame?
The indirect object in your sentence is Michelle. (It answers the question to whom or for whom.)
What answers what and whom?
The answer to "what" must be a noun or a pronoun that refers to things. It could be the subject or direct object of the sentence. Ex. What ingredient is needed for the cookies? Sugar is needed. (Subject.) What is he buying? He is buying a car. (direct object.) For whom, the answer is going to be a person or people, and it will be the direct object of the sentence. (The answer for who would be the subject.) Ex. Whom are you taking to the dance? (Notice how you is the subject.) I am taking Bruno. (Bruno is the direct object of the sentence. (For who-- Who is taking Bruno to the dance? Bruno is still the direct object. I am taking Bruno. I is the subject.)
In speech what answers what or whom?
In speech and writing the answer to whom (and what) is a noun or pronoun. For example: Whom did John Doe accuse? Answer: He accused Bill Smithers. What did Jane Doe eat?Answer: She ate sirloin steak followed by raspberries with cream.
