Question

On the New York Times home page, I noticed an article about Rafael Leonardo Black, a 64-year-old Clinton Hill artist WHO had just been discovered.

Why is it who and not whom. I thought that it would be whom because he is the one being discovered not the one doing the discovering.

Answer 1

Who functions as a subject, while whom functions as an object. Use who when the word is performing the action. Use whom when it is receiving the action. Rafael, who likes to paint. George loved painting dogs on the couch, because his friend Jorge, whom he liked very much, liked dogs.