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Simply put, "who" is a subject, while "whom" is an object.
A subject does an action, while an object recieves an action. In the sentence "The dog catches the frisbee", the dog is the subject, because it is doing the catching. The frisbee is the object because it is being caught.
To tell which one you should use, try replacing it with "he" or "him". If it makes more sense as "he", who is the correct word. If "him" makes more sense, whom is the correct pronoun.
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