Whom vs Who: object Judas + whom




The test itself lies in attempting to apply this new update to a card belonging to Judas, whom is a legitimate user of the system.



Is Judas considered the subject or the object? I'm considering Judas to be the object and hence applying whom after the comma. Is this correct?


I read about whom vs who at LINK, but I'm not sure if I'm applying it correctly to this case. I've also tried the whom+him test by asking Whom does the card belong to? with the answer It belongs to him.



Answer



The name Judas is indeed the object of the phrase in which it appears. However, this has no bearing on the selection of pronoun in a subsequent phrase, where the name can be used in a different function.


If you apply the "whom/him" test to the phrase where you're actually trying to use who/whom, you'll get



Who is a legitimate user of the system? He is a legitimate user of the system.



as opposed to the clearly incorrect version:



Whom is a legitimate user of the system? Him is a legitimate user of the system.



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