{"id":2284,"date":"2017-06-23T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2017-06-23T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:19:29","slug":"whose-as-a-relative-pronoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/whose-as-a-relative-pronoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose As a Relative Pronoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whose<\/strong> is a possessive word. As a relative pronoun, it can connect two clauses. Note that whose replaces words like <strong>his, her, its and their.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Study the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know a man. His son studies in the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can connect these two clauses with whose.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know a man <strong>whose<\/strong> son studies in the US. (Here we use the relative pronoun \u2018whose\u2019 instead of the possessive word \u2018his\u2019.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a friend. Her mother runs a beauty parlour in the town.<\/li>\n<li>I have a friend <strong>whose<\/strong> mother runs a beauty parlour in the town.<\/li>\n<li>I saw a girl. Her beauty took my breath away.<\/li>\n<li>I saw a girl <strong>whose<\/strong> beauty took my breath away.<\/li>\n<li>I watched a movie. I don\u2019t remember its name.<\/li>\n<li>I watched a movie<strong> whose<\/strong> name I don\u2019t remember. (Here the relative pronoun \u2018whose\u2019 replaces the pronoun \u2018its\u2019.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose is a possessive word. As a relative pronoun, it can connect two clauses. Note that whose replaces words like his, her, its and their. Study the examples given below. I know a man.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-5-worksheets","tag-relative-pronouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}