{"id":4567,"date":"2023-02-03T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2025-04-30T04:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:38:16","slug":"difference-whomever-vs-whoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/difference-whomever-vs-whoever","title":{"rendered":"Is it \u201cwhomever\u201d or \u201cwhoever\u201d? Definitions and examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">Misusing the words \u201cwhoever\u201d and \u201cwhomever\u201d happens frequently in verbal and written communication. Learn how to tell these two relative pronouns apart and the appropriate cases in which to use them both.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"full-bleed-image\">\n        <picture class=\"c-image\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/078-Is-it-Whomever-or-Whoever-1600x600-1.jpg\" media=\"(min-width:767px) and (max-width:1600px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/078-Is-it-Whomever-or-Whoever-1600x600-1.jpg\" media=\"(min-width:540px) and (max-width:767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/078-Is-it-Whomever-or-Whoever-1600x600-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m365contenthub.wpengine.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/078-Is-it-Whomever-or-Whoever-1600x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spelling and grammar books among other objects on a table\" \/>\n    <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"links-menu\">\n<h2>Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n            <a href=\"\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/difference-whomever-vs-whoever#how-to-use-whomever-in-a-sentence\">How to use \u201cwhomever\u201d<\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            <a href=\"\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/difference-whomever-vs-whoever#how-to-use-whoever-in-a-sentence\">How to use \u201cwhoever\u201d<\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            <a href=\"\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/difference-whomever-vs-whoever#when-to-use-whomever-and-whoever-examples\">Examples of when to use \u201cwhomever\u201d and \u201cwhoever\u201d<\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            <a href=\"\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/difference-whomever-vs-whoever#difference-between-who-and-whom\">Difference between \u201cwho\u201d vs. \u201cwhom\u201d<\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some think that \u201cwhomever\u201d is a more formal version of \u201cwhoever,\u201d but this isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is it \u201cwhomever\u201d or \u201cwhoever\u201d? 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