Whoever or Whomever?

Question

Example: "I'll talk to friends, family, ________." Would it be whomever or whoever? It'd help me out a lot. Thanks.

Answer 1

Whomever.

There's an easy way to decide between "who" and "whom." Simply replace with "he" or "him" and see what fits. "I'll talk to him" equates to "I'll talk to whomever." You may have to rearrange the sentence for it to make sense.

Examples:

"____ did you talk to?" is "Whom" because if you rearrange the sentence it would be "Did you talk to him?"

"I told him ____ called," is "who" because "I told him he called" is the correct sentence.

Answer 2

It would be whomever, but I can't remember the reason why. I'm a long time out of school. Maybe someone else will say why that's the case.

Answer 3

Any time (Really, any time at all) that you use a preposition, then you will use 'whom,' which is the object case of the pronoun. It's good to substitute "he" or "him" but to really learn the rule, just remember that 'who' is the subject case, and 'whom' is the object case. So if the word functions as the subject (the doer of the action) then use 'who.' If it's the object of the sentence, (object of a preposition, direct or indirect object, receive of verb's action, etc.) then use 'whom.'

So in your question, you'd definitely use 'whomever.'

Answer 4

whomever