You just learned about relative clauses and pronouns. Now it gets tricky! Sometimes there is a preposition word joined to the object of a sentence.
He is the student.
The school gave an award to him.
To combine these two sentences properly, we should use the relative pronoun 'whom' like this:
He is the student to whom the school gave an award.
However, this sounds a bit weird and if you talked like this all the time you would sound quite old-fashioned! Instead, it is much more common to use a normal relative pronoun and add the preposition to the end of the sentence.
He is the student who the school gave an award to.
Only in formal conversations or in writing should you use the first way of combining sentences.
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