{"id":73492,"date":"2020-03-26T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73492"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:14:39","slug":"whose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/whose\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Whose<\/b>\u00a0is a relative possessive word, used as a determiner before nouns. It can refer to people or things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the man\u00a0<b>whose house\u00a0<\/b>was burgled.<\/li>\n<li>I saw a girl\u00a0<b>whose beauty\u00a0<\/b>took my breath away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Of which; that \u2026of<\/h3>\n<p>Instead of\u00a0<b>whose<\/b>, we can use\u00a0<b>of which\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>that \u2026of\u00a0<\/b>to refer to things. The most common word order is\u00a0<b>noun + of which\u00a0<\/b>or<b>\u00a0that \u2026 of<\/b>.<b>\u00a0Of which \u2026+ noun\u00a0<\/b>is also possible.<\/p>\n<p>Compare the following sentences. All of them express the same idea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has written<b>\u00a0a book whose name\u00a0<\/b>I have forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>He has written<b>\u00a0a book the name of which\u00a0<\/b>I have forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>He has written\u00a0<b>a book that\u00a0<\/b>I have forgotten\u00a0<b>the name of.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>He has written\u00a0<b>a book of which<\/b>\u00a0I have forgotten\u00a0<b>the name.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sentences with\u00a0<b>whose<\/b>\u00a0are rather formal. In an informal style other structures are preferred.<b>\u00a0With<\/b>\u00a0is a common way of expressing possessive ideas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have got some friends\u00a0<b>with a house\u00a0<\/b>that looks over a river. (Less formal than I have got some friends\u00a0<b>whose house\u00a0<\/b>looks over a river.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose\u00a0is a relative possessive word, used as a determiner before nouns. It can refer to people or things. This is the man\u00a0whose house\u00a0was burgled. I saw a girl\u00a0whose beauty\u00a0took my breath away. Of which;&#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":[251],"tags":[2307,2305,2306],"class_list":["post-73492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-using-whose","tag-whose","tag-whose-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492","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=73492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73493,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492\/revisions\/73493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}