Who is going on the field trip with whom?

Ah, the power of the dying word, whom. For those of you who are hyper-active about grammar, this will be an eye opener.

Who is subjective, while whom is objective. Mwahaha most of you have almost no clue about what that last sentence meant...do you? While who is rapidly replacing whom, there are those (like myself) who strive to use whom correctly in their everyday language. Let's put this in laman's terms, who can be replaced by he or she or I or they or we or you.

For example, who is going on the field trip? We can reorder the sentence to read: I am going on the field trip, he is going on the field trip, she is going on the field trip, they are going on the field trip, we are going on the field trip, you are going on the field trip.

Now for whom. Whom replaces me or him or her or them or us or you. Again, an example of this is. That is for whom? The sentence can be rearranged to read: that is for me, that is for him, that is for her, that is for them, that is for us, or that is for you.

I leave you at this time once again, hopefully you have gained some form of knowledge that you did not know before, although you might not use it. Choose now whether to let whom slowly die out of the english language forever, or keep it living for another generation! (Notice the wonderful use of the exclaimation mark for emphasis.)

Please, please, use whom and no longer say, "who is going on the field trip with who?"

Happy rearranging,

-Russell Lowe