In which sentence is who used correctly?
Who did you discuss with him?
About who were you discussing?
Who is the person that you were discussing?
Who were you discussing?
Would it be the first one?
I'd go with C :-)
A, B, and D all need to have "whom" instead of "who." Do you know why?
I was wondering the same thing.....
In A, B, and D, "whom" is needed because each time the word is an OBJECT (direct object in A and D, object of a preposition in B).
Subject form: who
Object form: whom
Compare with "he" and "him." Would you say, "Were you discussing he?" or "Were you discussing him?" (Notice the -m on the object form of both these pronouns.)
No, it would not be the first one. That sentence should use "whom" instead of "who." But don't worry, no one really knows when to use "whom" correctly anyway!
Yes, the first sentence "Who did you discuss with him?" is the correct usage of "who".
To determine the correct usage in this case, you need to identify the subject and object in the sentence. The subject is the person performing the action, while the object is the person or thing being acted upon.
In the first sentence, the subject is "you" and the object is "him". The question is asking about the person "you" discussed with "him", so "Who" is used correctly to refer to the unknown person.
In the second sentence, "About who were you discussing?", the word "who" should be used as the object of the preposition "about", resulting in "About whom were you discussing?".
In the third sentence, "Who is the person that you were discussing?", although grammatically correct, the use of "who" as the subject implies that the person being referred to is the one discussing, not the one being discussed.
In the fourth sentence, "Who were you discussing?", "who" is used correctly as the subject since it refers to the person being discussed.