Choosing Between Who and Whom

In each sentence, choose the correct word, who or whom.

For help with this exercise, see “Use the Right Type of Pronoun.”

  1. Edison is certainly the one (who / whom) became famous for his electric light bulb, but he did not invent it.

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    Choosing Between Who and Whom - Question 1
  2. The inventor to (who / whom) this credit belongs is the English chemist Humphry Davy.

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    Choosing Between Who and Whom - Question 2
  3. It was Davy for (who / whom), in 1809, a charged strip of charcoal took on a satisfying glow after he connected it to a battery with wires.

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    Choosing Between Who and Whom - Question 3
  4. An English physicist named Joseph Wilson Swan, (who / whom) is also largely unknown, advanced this development in 1878 by creating an electric light bulb that glowed for 13.5 hours.

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    Choosing Between Who and Whom - Question 4
  5. Three years earlier, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans had patented a light bulb, and it was then Edison (who / whom) purchased their patent and in 1879 devised a carbon filament that burned for 40 hours.

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    Choosing Between Who and Whom - Question 5