Professors at the college, many of whom have tenure, argue that the st

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Professors at the college,  many of whom  have tenure, argue that the starting salary for most faculty positions is too low.

(A) many of whom
(B) of many of who
(C) many of who
(D) many of which
(E) many that

chetan2u · Accepted Answer

For a human being, who and whom should be used..
WHO is used as subject and WHOM is used as object.

When in confusion, replace it with personal pronoun for example use he/they and him/them. If he/they fits in, use who, the subject and if him/them fits in, use whom, the object.

Many of they have tenure OR many of them have tenure.
Of course Them is correct, so WHOM is correct

A

CounterSniper · Answer

first of all we can straight away remove D and E because  which and that cannot refer to professor , they are normally used to refer to inanimate objects.
B is incorrect because  of many of  is unidiomatic 
now,   who   is used to refer to subject of the verb , while  whom  is used for the object.
one trick to know which one to use is to substitute  he/him/she  for who or  they/them/her  for whom

when we replace the underlined part with  "many of he/him"  
then with   "many of them "  
the later looks fine

so 
A

sudarshan22 · Answer

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Professors at the college,  many of whom  have tenure, argue that the starting salary for most faculty positions is too low.

(A) many of whom

(B) of many of who

(C) many of who

(D) many of which

(E) many that

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sudarshan22 · Answer

Official Explanation :

In order to answer this question, you must ascertain whether to use  whom, which, who  or  that . The pronoun refers to people, so use  who  or  whom . Eliminate  (D)  and  (E) .

The remaining split is between  who  and  whom . To test which pronoun you need, replace  whom  and  who  with other objective and subjective pronouns that have a more correct obvious use. You would correctly write  "many of them" , not  "many of they" , so in this instance you need to use the objective case of the pronoun, or  whom . Eliminate  (B)  and  (C) .

The sentence is correct as written, and the answer is  (A) .

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