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Use of ‘who’ and ‘whom’ and ‘too’ and ‘enough’

There is a difference between the pronouns ‘who’ and ‘whom’. ‘We use:

• ‘who’ to refer to the subject of a sentence.

• ‘whom’ to refer to the object of a verb or preposition.

How can you tell when your pronoun is the object of a verb or preposition? Try
substituting it with ‘he’ or ‘she’ and ‘him’ or ‘her.’ If ‘he’ or ‘she’ fits, you should
use who. If ‘him’ or ‘her’ fits, you should use whom.

Keep in mind that you may have to temporarily rearrange the sentence while you test it.

For example:

• Who/whom ate my sandwich?

Try substituting with ‘she’ and ‘her’.

She ate my sandwich. Her ate my sandwich.

‘She’ works and ‘her’ doesn’t. That means the word you want is ‘who’.

Correct: Who ate my sandwich?
• Who/whom should I talk to about labelling food in the refrigerator?

Try substituting with ‘he’ and ‘him’.

I should talk to he. I should talk to him.

‘Him’ works, so the word you need is ‘whom’.

Correct: Whom should I talk to about labelling food in the refrigerator?

Use of ‘enough’ and ‘too’

The words ‘too’ and ‘enough’ are used with adjectives. Too means ‘more than what is
needed’.

Enough means ‘sufficient’.
Enough comes after adjectives and adverbs. Too comes before adjectives and adverbs.

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