What is meant by whose?
According to the Oxford Dictionary, In the pronoun form, the definition of whose is belonging to or associated with which person, of whom, or which (used to indicate that the following noun belongs to or is associated with the person or thing mentioned in the previous clause).
Whose is a possessive pronoun like his, her, and our. Whose is the possession form of the pronoun who. The following is the whose function in sentences in English
Whose to find out the person who owns the item. Like a sentence
- Whose smartphone is this?
Whose can also be used in indirect sentences,
The use of whose in indirect sentences (indirect sentences or indirect questions) is like a sentence
- He doesn’t know whose motorbike that is, which means he doesn’t know who owns the motorbike.
Whose shows ownership (possession) of the car. Whose can be used to replace a noun in a question when the noun is already known.
Example sentences like
- It was someone’s idea to go swimming, Whose was it?
Whose is used in the word Adjective clause. Adjective clause is used to explain the noun in the main sentence. As in the example sentence below
- He doesn’t know whose motorbike that is.
Note: whose is used to indicate ownership of animals, places, and objects that cannot be described. Whose does not necessarily reference human ownership.
The following are 25 examples of interrogative sentences whose in English. If you have any questions, please write them in the comments column below :
- Whose performance was the better?
- Whose laptop is that?
- Whose paper did you take?
- Whose turn is it next?
- Whose paintings are these?
- Whose room is this?
- This is the novel whose title is God Verses.
- Marya has a 15-year-old sister whose ambition is to be a YouTuber.
- The headmaster of my school, whose name was Mr. Yahya.
- Whose motor was she in?
- Whose chairs are these?
- Whose book is on my table?
- Whose glass is that?
- Whose go is it?
- Whose sister is she?
- Whose birthday is today?
- Whose are these shoes?
- Whose little child is she?
- This book is for students whose native language is not English.
- Jacob is wondering whose father she is then.
- Benjamin wondered whose the luxury house was.
- Mr. Benjamin whose car I borrowed for this trip, is a rich civil servant.
- My country is a nation whose head is not a king, but a president.
- This is the girl whose phone was lost.
- This is the boy whose computer was stolen.