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What is the difference between Whom are you talking to? and Who are you talking to? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Whom are you talking to? and Who are you talking to? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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The first one is an unnecessarily fancy way of saying the second one.
99.9999999 percent of people just say “who“. If you meet somebody who habitually says – whom – then you know that you’ve met somebody who thinks that they are very important indeed.
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With whom are you speaking? = who are you talking to?
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"whom" is proper English. "who" is what everybody says. 😀
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@Goodyuqing
The first one is an unnecessarily fancy way of saying the second one.
99.9999999 percent of people just say “who“. If you meet somebody who habitually says – whom – then you know that you’ve met somebody who thinks that they are very important indeed.
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