Question

Fill in the blank with the best option:

Very few of the journalists _____ he had invited turned up for his press conference.

• A. who
• B. whom
• C. whose
• D. which

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

whom

Relative pronouns have two functions. Like other pronouns they stand for the noun or pronoun places before them and like conjunction they join sub clauses with main clause and start the adjective clauses.

The relative pronoun 'whom' is used for persons.

The given sentence talks about the journalists.

'Who' is also used in case of persons. But 'who' should be used to refer to the subject of a sentence and 'whom' should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition.

Here the noun 'journalists', is object of the preposition 'of'.

Thus option B is the correct answer.

Options A,C,D are incorrect.