Which would be technically correct in this sentence….

Can you confirm who this applies to ?
Can you confirm to who this applies ?
Can you confirm whom this applies ?
Can you confirm whom this applies to ?
Can you confirm to whom this applies ?

Last one, but I wouldn’t put a space before the question mark.
IIRC whom is used when the answer is ‘him’ and who when the answer is ‘he’ (whom is the object form of who).
Prepositions are bad things to end a sentence with. (see wot I dun there!)

Can you confirm who this applies to ?
Can you confirm to who this applies ?
Can you confirm whom this applies ?
Can you confirm whom this applies to ?
Can you confirm to whom this applies ?

I think…

Bad grammar is something up with which I will not put!

IIRC whom is used when the answer is ‘him’ and who when the answer is ‘he’ (whom is the object form of who).

Agreed. So [can you confirm] who/whom this applies to?

It applies to him (not he) => whom

🙂

Cheers , I knowed STW would not fail me, as they say “who you going to call… errr hang on

Prepositions are bad things to end a sentence with. (see wot I dun there!)

Actually, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s an entirely artifical and somewhat pompous stylistic constraint, not a rule of grammar.

See :
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar-myths-prepositions/

and

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/ending-sentences-with-prepositions

I’d also say the last one, but I don’t think there’s anything necessarily one with the last but one either. Didn’t know the him/he reasoning though.

IMO 1 and 5 are fine. 2 and 4 are dodgy, but I wouldn’t correct them. Only 3 is outright incorrect. I clearly won’t ever get a job with the Grammar Police.

I’d correct 2 and 3 for sure if they cam across my desk. Maybe 1 as well but I’d have to be feeling a bit more pedantic.

First one. There’s never a need to use whom, unless you’re trying to sound all legal.

“Whom” is on the way out anyway, give it a couple more years and only pedants, costume drama writers and Miss Jean Brodie will even remember it.

To whom am I giving it? ‘Whom’ is a person to which something is being done (giving). Otherwise it’s who.

Who is it? Just a question, without something being done to anyone.

What is really ment… Who’s getting hit with this shit? 😆

Womp or Whomp?

Womp or Whomp?

Wampa

None of the above. Confirm is the wrong word. “Can you confirm it applies to Fred”, or “Can you tell me to whom it applies”.

Whom is quite formal* and in many cases “Can you tell me who it applies to?” is perfectly good.

* I think it is something to do with being the object. “The rule applies to Fred” has the subject of the rule and object of Fred. “Who came to work yesterday” – who is the subject and there’s no object.

Pedantic? Your welcome!

If you want a pure grammar answer, it’s case sensitive. Who is nominative , whom is accusative (direct) or dative (indirect) (simplified to objective in English grammar as there is no distinction between the two).

Surely this is a question for Child Prodigy Simon Fisher

Can you confirm to whom it is that this applies

who gives a shit

not whom gives shit

Doctor Who

or

Doctor Whom

What if it’s a ‘she’?

who gives a shit

not whom gives shit

To whom does one give a shit?

What if it’s a ‘she’?

Confirm who this applies to!