Possessives shouldn't be difficult. In many languages, they're not. In French for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say "the car of Robert": la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...

Q: In the sentence, “None of that revenue is going to the city, whose main source of income is taxes,” is it correct to use “whose” to refer to a city, an inanimate object? — Mary Kaskan, Watertown, N ...

The word "who's" is a contraction of "who is" (or "who has"). The homonym "whose" is an all-purpose possessive pronoun. Whenever you write "who's," test to see if you mean "who is" (Who's sorry now?) ...

CAN the possessive pronoun “whose” be used after a thing? If so, could you please give me a few examples? I am puzzled as I thought “whose” should be used after a pronoun, a person or animal. If we ...

In the family of relative pronouns, whose can be described as a younger brother of ‘who’, which is normally used for humans. On the other hand, ‘which’ collocates with non-humans. As a result, when we ...