different between whomever vs whenever
whomever
English
Alternative forms
- whomsoever
Etymology
whom +? ever
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /hum??v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Pronoun
whomever (objective case of whoever)
- Objective case of whoever.
- Max Beerbohm:
- “To impose his will on whomever he sees comfortably settled.”
- Max Beerbohm:
Usage notes
- Who is a subject pronoun. Whom is an object pronoun. To determine whether a particular sentence uses a subject or an object pronoun, rephrase it to use he/she or him/her instead of who, whom; if you use he or she, then you use the subject pronoun who; if you use him or her, then you use the object pronoun. The same rule applies to whoever and whomever.
- Who can also be used as an object pronoun, especially in informal writing and speech (hence one hears not only whom are you waiting for? but also who are you waiting for?), and whom may be seen as (overly) formal; in some dialects and contexts, it is hardly used, even in the most formal settings. As an exception to this, fronted prepositional phrases almost always use whom, e.g. one usually says with whom did you go?, not *with who did you go?. However, dialects in which whom is rarely used usually avoid fronting prepositional phrases in the first place (for example, using who did you go with?).
- The use of who as an object pronoun is proscribed by many authorities, but is frequent nonetheless. It is usually felt as much more acceptable than the converse hypercorrection in which whom is misused in place of who, as in *the gentleman whom spoke to me.
- For more information, see "who" and "whom" on Wikipedia.
Related terms
- whom
- whichever
- whoever
Translations
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whenever
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??n?v?/, /hw??n?v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??n?v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Conjunction
whenever
- At any time that.
- Visit whenever you want to.
- Every time that.
- Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.
- (Ireland, Southern US) When.
- Whenever I was a child, I lived in Arkansas.
Related terms
Translations
Adverb
whenever
- At any time.
- Feel free to visit whenever.
Translations
Anagrams
- everwhen
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