Meaning of 'Who shall I fear, but the ones who hurt me'

[Elga]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #79 "Pronouns: who, whose, whom, which", question 6

......... shall I fear, but the ones who hurt me?

(a) Whose
(b) Whom
(c) Who
(d) Which

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #79 "Pronouns: who, whose, whom, which", answer 6

Whom shall I fear, but the ones who hurt me?

Correct answer: (b) Whom

Your answer was: incorrect
Who shall I fear, but the ones who hurt me?
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Please explain the meaning of this sentence ''Who shall I fear, but the ones who hurt me?''
Thank you

Elga

[Alan]

Hi Elga,

You ask for the meaning of this sentence:

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Why do we use whom and not who in this sentence?

[Mahboubeh]

[Mahboubeh]

[Ttg]

I fear somebody.
You can see, in this sentence, I is the subject, and somebody is the object. A object pronoun is needed here, so we choose whom rather than who.

If we change this sentence into 'Somebody hits me', then we can ask 'Who hits me?' for here somebody is a subject.

Hope this helps.

[English Teacher]

hi,
we often use who in order to refer to the ( subject )of the sentence.
And we use whom to refer to the ( object ) of the sentence.
I hope I've been helpful.
english teacher
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[English Teacher]

Hi,
To continue my answer about ( who & whom).
The (subject )= it's the person or the thing who does the action( does the verb).
The ( object )= it's the person or the thing whom the action or the verb is done on him/it.
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[Gundela]

Dear all,
The only people I need to be frightened of are those people who hurt me (give me pain).

in which type of situations we can use the above sentence.Kindly let me know one or two situations

Pradeep