When we were in school, many of us learned that it is essential to start your formal communication professionally. In most cases, they recommend that you use “To Whom It May Concern”. Today, there are ...

What does “To Whom It May Concern” mean? You’ve probably heard or come across this greeting, likely in your professional life. “To Whom It May Concern” is a greeting that you can use to start a ...

“Who” gets to have all the fun. “Who” gets to be on first. “Who” is responsible for letting the dogs out. Meanwhile, “whom” is sitting in the corner, being perceived as pretentious by plenty of ...

Who here knows when to use “who” and when to use “whom”? For whom am I writing this post? For those of us who like a good whom now and then and know it isn’t just a fancier version of who, that’s whom ...

subject/object pair -- she/her, he/him, we/us, I/me, they/them. “You’re meeting in the conference room with ... .” To know whether it’s “who” or “whom,” just plug in another set and pick: It’s either ...

The usage to be preferred in ordinary speech and writing is "Who are you, anyways?" "Whom" should be used in the nominative case only when a note of dignity or austerity is desired. For example, if a ...

I was pleased to see a colleague remark in a recent online discussion that when she edits, she asks the client whether to maintain the who/whom distinction. That is sensible, satisfying the client’s ...

Back in the spring of 2022, professor of linguistics David Pesetsky was talking to an undergraduate class about relative clauses, which add information to sentences. For instance: “The senator, with ...

They say that “almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. In other words, almost getting something right isn’t worth much unless you’re close enough to score points or leave a little ...

In day-to-day life, odds are good that you rarely if ever use the phrase “To Whom It May Concern.” In fact, you may have never considered using this phrase until you began a recent job search. During ...