English Grammar Lesson: Who's and Whose - Learn How to Use and Understand Essential English Grammar
Hi everyone! Thanks for joining me for another blog post! Today we will be having a mini grammar lesson.
In this short and simple grammar lesson you will learn everything you need to know about about WHO’S and WHOSE so that you never make a mistake or get confused again. I will share easily actionable points and will provide lots of example sentences to make this an easy grammar point to learn and fix.
Click on the video below to watch and learn, and read the transcript underneath to check your understanding and revise today's grammar topic. Also, at the bottom of this post, you'll find a useful summary of the most important points to remember.
I hope that you enjoy this lesson - feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help.
:) Nicole
English Grammar Lesson: Who's and Whose - Learn How To Use and Understand Essential English
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE ABOVE VIDEO: 'English Grammar Lesson: Who's And Whose - Learn How to Use And Understand Essential English Grammar'
Hi everyone, its Nicole again. And I'm here with another grammar question.
Lots and lots of grammar questions are being asked at the moment. So keep asking, please.
This one was about who's and whose - WHO’S and WHOSE. Who's and whose.
So, the first one, WHO’S is what we call a contraction, and a contraction is when you've got two words and you connect them to make one word and you put an apostrophe in the middle to show that it's the short version. So, in this situation who’s is the short version of who and is or who and has. That's who's. So that's what we call a contraction.
Then we also have the other form of whose WHOSE and this is used for ownership, for possession. It's introducing a relative clause where you're giving extra information, and it's used exactly the same as the who or the which or the that which we've previously spoken about, but in this situation, you're talking about the ownership, so you might say something like ‘The dog whose owner lives in the city was very lonely’. That's a horrible sentence. But you know what I mean!
So, who's WHO’S is always two words, two words there, who and is or who and has with your apostrophe connecting them, and whose, WHOSE is not a contraction, it's an ownership used exactly the same as who or that for a relative clause, where you're giving extra information about the same subject.
I hope that makes sense. If you've got any questions ask them down here. I'll answer them. More importantly, I can do another video. Thanks so much. Bye!
How was the short learning video? Did it help you understand the difference between who's and whose? I hope so!
Let me summarise the most important points for you to remember:
-WHO’S is a contraction (two words connected to make one) for who is or who has and always uses an apostrophe in between.
-WHOSE and this is used for ownership, for possession. It introduces a relative clause with extra information about the same subject (exactly the same as the who, which, and that relative pronouns)
So, that's all you need to know, as simplified as possible - how great is that! I hope that this video has been helpful and enjoyable for you and I look forward to teaching you some more mini grammar lessons in the near future.
Thanks for taking the time to learn with me, it is a great pleasure helping you!
:) Nicole
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