phrase (relative clause) · academic
one of whom + V
used after a noun phrase referring to people to give more information about one person from that group
Examples
“I invited five colleagues to the seminar, one of whom is a renewable-energy expert.”
“She recommended three authors, one of whom I had never read before.”
“We hired four interns, one of whom already had professional experience.”
Band 8 sentence
“I invited six researchers to the roundtable, one of whom had published extensively on climate adaptation.”
Collocations
- one of whom is
- one of whom works as
Word family
Common mistakes
one of who→one of whom
one of which→one of whom
one whom→one of whom
Say it for a higher band
5one of them→6one of these people→7+one of whom + V
Synonyms
one of them
Easily confused
one of whom vs one of which
“I visited three museums, one of which displayed a major modern art collection.”
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