In the following sentence, should "Who", "Whom", "Whoever," or "Whomever" be used in the blank spaces?: ___ receives the package should send it to ____ actually ordered it.
1 Answer
Mar 17, 2016
Both spaces should be filled with whoever.
Explanation:
From four given words "who" and "whom" are only used in questions.
Who is used to form questions about subject like for example: "Who received the package?"
Whom is used to form questions about object like for example:
Whom are you going to send the package?.
Since the given sentence is not a question you have to use whoever or whomever, but as with who and whom it depends on the part of sentence to which whoever/whomever applies. In this sentence both missing parts are subjects, so the correct answer is:
"Whoever receives the package should send it to whoever actually ordered it."
