In my last grammar post, I talked about who vs whom. But as I perused through the rules and examples, I came across a related but different problem: Who's vs whose. I don't know that I'd really ever given it much thought.
I knew that who's is a contraction of who is or who has. But whose? Where do you use that? It actually made bunches of sense when I read it carefully.
The possessive of who is whose.
Correct: Who's coming with me? (Contraction)
Correct: Whose book is this? (Possessive)
Whose is showing possesion. I wonder how many times I've used it wrong. (It makes me cringe!)
A great site...
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000136.htm
Thanks for writing about who and whom. I have a lot a trouble with that grammar rule too. I always use it wrong all the time too and never know when to use it either.
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