Dateline: Friday 15 August 2008
Choose Who's or Whose?
If you mean "Who is" then choose who's because who's is a contraction for who is (who has, who was). The apostrophe takes the place of the "i" in "is" so that who is becomes who's.
Correct - Who's your daddy? (Who is your daddy?)
Who's been in the cookie jar?
Who's Who?
Who's the boss?
Who's been in the cookie jar?
Who's Who?
Who's the boss?
You can always replace "who is" with "who's", not so with whose.
Whose is a possessive pronoun. Whose is the possessive form of the pronoun who (sometimes which)
Correct - Whose line is it anyway?
"And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon."
"And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon."
You cannot replace whose with who is - "Who is" line is it anyway doesn't make sense.
Whose means "belonging to whom".
Whose means "belonging to whom".
MEMORY TRICK -
Choose Who's when you mean who is (or who has, who was), and whose all other times.
Ready to choose between who's or whose?
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