The committee was instructed to award the money

Kindly go through the blog :https://gmatclub.com/blog/2010/02/%E2%80%9Cwho%E2%80%9D-vs-%E2%80%9Cwhom%E2%80%9D-in-gmat-sentence-correction/. The ANSWER to the question should be A. I doubt your source. Applying the technique - "THE COMMITTEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO AWARD THE MONEY TO THEM. Experts kindly assist if there is a flaw in the logic

Hi,
According to my understanding, while we use "who" for the Doer (person or thing) of associated verb, "whom" is used for someone/something on which action is done.
Ex:
1) Who is the father of nation?
- Here Who is doer of action "is".
2) The person, who is the Father of Nation, is Mahatma Gandhi.
- Here also who is doer of verb "is".
BUT,
3) The person, "whom" you hold to be the Father of Nation, is Mahatma Gandhi.
- Here verb/ action "hold" is done by "you" on someone (so "whom" is used).

Hope this helped.
Best Wishes.

I agree, according to the link you provided, the answer should be A. Please, can someone confirm OA.
Thanks

Dear pqhai ,

thank you for nice explanation, but I need a help in the following issue :

I can distinguish when to use "who" or " whom" using many ways that you mentioned one of them above, but I have a problem in produce the sentence , for example :

I am going to see the doctor. The doctor delivered me when I was born.
I am going to see the doctor who delivered me when I was born. __R__

Jessica met a new friend. Jessica liked her friend very much.
Jessica met a new friend whom she liked very much.

in the first example : I applied what I learned from the grammar book, but as we use whom because the noun phrase is present as objective.

in the second example I do care for Jessica not for her friend.

so please to help me understand the concept.

thank you

in first example, the answer to the question, "who delivered you?" is "he". "He" delivered me. So we use "who". Another way to think of it is, subject (doctor) is the doer of the sentence. the doctor delivered me.

in second example, the answer to the question, "who did Jessica like?", is "him". Jessica met "him". Another way to think of it is, the subject (friend) of the sentence is used as an object of a verb (liked). this person is the receiver. of the sentence. You don't care about Jessica, but you are mainly concerned about the friend she met, whom she liked very much.

Hello pqhai
in my first attemp, I chose A, but after I saw the answer I think choice B is the correct answer by considering this question : who had contributed most.
I think the "it" is not the subject for the clause.
For example:
I went fishing with whoever had a ship.
I went fishing with whoever I thought had a ship.

i am confused about B being the right answer.

Since an object pronoun is required after the preposition "to" (object of preposition), "whomever" is definitely better than "whoever". Corrected the OA.

Whomever had contributed most to the advancement of the community.
Whoever had contributed most to the advancement of the community.

Which is better?

Definitely the second one.

Now put it in the whole sentence.
The committee was instructed to award the money to whomever it thought had contributed most to the advancement of the community.
The committee was instructed to award the money to whoever it thought had contributed most to the advancement of the community.

I feel the OA was correct and answer should be B.
In the second clause whoever is actually the subject and not the object. Hence " whoever ".

Hi sayantanc2k
I'm not able to figure out what's wrong with option C.
Could you please walk me through C?

Listen ..whoever is used for when sentence require subject pronoun and whomever is used when sentence required object pronoun

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Here "whom" is NOT the object of "it thought", but the subject of "had contributed". Thus the correct form is "who", not "whom". Compare with the following:

The Earth, scientists think, was formed from the Sun... here "The Earth" is the subject for "was formed" and not the object for "scientists think".

But according to your reasoning, shouldn't the answer be B? Because it is followed b a verb not another subject.

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