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Interrogative adjectives and pronouns
For
persons: subject who (pronoun)
object whom, who (pronoun)
possessive whose (pronoun and adjective)
For
things: subject/object what (pronoun and adjective)
For persons or things when the
choice is restricted:
subject/object which (pronoun and adjective)
The
same form is used for singular and plural.
what
can also be used for persons
Affirmative verb after who, whose etc. used as subjects
who, whose, which, what when used as
subjects are normally followed by an affirmative, not an interrogative, verb:
Who
pays the bills?
(affirmative verb)
Whose/Which horse won? (affirmative verb)
What happened?/What went wrong?
(affirmative verb, possible
answers: We missed the tram/had an accident.) But with who, whose
etc + be + noun or personal/distributive pronoun, an interrogative verb
is used:
Who are
you? Whose is this?
What is that noise? With who, whose etc. used as objects of a verb or
preposition an interrogative verb is, of course, necessary. |