Would you use who or whom in the following sentence?I’m going over a submission for someone and have to give it to them in one hour, hope someone can help me as I flunk out when it comes to who or whom.  Don’t know why… see to be able to follow the other rules of grammer LOL
. . Have others who you depend on to meet the deadline do the same
Shouldn’t it be whom? sheesh… ???
        Thanks a bunch!! Meenie

Hallo Meenie!

Yes ‘whom’ is right here becuase it’s the object pronoun, whereas ‘who’ is the subject pronoun. In your sentence, ‘whom’ is the object of ‘depend on’.

The confusion is that ‘whom’ often appears in the subject field (that is, before its verb), and so it’s tempting to use the subject form ‘who’. I don’t believe that using ‘who’ instead of ‘whom’ can be considered wrong as it is so widespread. What is rather silly is the hypercorrection that puts in ‘whom’ where ‘who’ will do.

Have fun,

- Garzo.

The whom’s take it, as it should be "on whom you depend" or "whom you depend on". However, in today’s world, people rarely use who and whom correctly, more’s the pity.

Thank you both, Garzo and RK!
I’m within my deadline plus I thought it was "whom" but I didn’t know why. Now I do thanks to you guys!
I’m snatching it out of my printer now and running out the door!!!
        Bye….....
            Meenie  ::)

Back in the day… we were taught the evils of hypercorrection with this:

"Whom is it?" she asked, for she had been to night school.