Her husband, whom she wrote to every day, missed her terribly.

See if you can replace it in your sentence (with a little jiggling) with her or him. To check, see if the sentence still makes sense when you replace who with he or she (you might need to reword it slightly). This means that if someone is performing actions in a sentence, who is the correct choice. Who is used as the subject of a sentence, while whom is used as the object in a sentence. WeвЂ™ve all come across pedants who love to correct people when they use who and whom. In case youвЂ™re wondering, if youвЂ™re writing an open letter of reference for someone (and it will be distributed to multiple interviewers), you would use To Whom It May Concern. I wholeheartedly recommend Jo March, who has been working as a paralegal at our company, forВ employment. Since itвЂ™s a formal greeting, it should be followed by a colon in a letter.

The correct way to use To Whom It May ConcernД®achВ word in the phrase To Whom It May ConcernВ shouldВ be capitalized.

There are examples in letters from this period by both Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. It is thought To Whom It May ConcernВ entered common usage in the late 1800s. It can also be found as the salutation at the start of open letters, or a letter meant to be read by a wide variety of people. To Whom It May Concern is used in formal letters, when the name of the person you are addressing is not known. But are you using this phrase correctly? It sounds so outdated-is it still in use? And are there any alternatives? Where does the phrase come from? One classic choice (as we no doubt know) is To Whom It May Concern. We know youвЂ™re tensing up just thinking about it. Is it someone we know well ( Mom will do just fine for you-know-who)? Is it someone we know professionally? Or-cue the horror music!-is it some unidentified person whoвЂ™ll be reviewing our application, request, or materials? And yet, every time we start to write a letter, weвЂ™re faced with a tricky question at the very start-how do we address the recipient? ItвЂ™s frustrating to hit a stumbling block right at the beginning.

To whom it may concern capitalized