Is the use of “whom” and “whomever” dying out?
The Google Ngram Viewer can tell us the answer, and it’s not as straightforward as you might think.
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2 min readJan 16, 2022
The terms “whom” and “whomever” are pronouns. “Whom” is used instead of “who” as the object of a verb or preposition, and the same goes for “whomever” and “whoever.” For instance, we have
