Today while browsing the net, I stumbled on a website that had a huge collection of quotes and read \u201cGuess, who\u2019s quote is this?\u201d Well, who\u2019s and whose are commonly confused words in English. Both these words have same pronunciation but completely different meaning. <\/p>\n
Consider these sentences:<\/p>\n
\u201cWho\u2019s there?\u201d \u201cWho is there\u201d? So, here we see that \u201cwho\u2019s\u201d is the contraction of \u201cwho is\u201d. Now, take a look at this sentence:<\/p>\n \u201cParenting a child who\u2019s been mentally tortured is difficult\u201d.<\/em> Here, \u201cwho\u2019s\u201d is being used as the contraction of who has.<\/p>\n Now, take a look at the sentence \u201c\u201cGuess, who\u2019s quote is this?\u201d <\/em>Now, substitute \u201c who\u2019s\u201d in this construction with \u201cwho is\u201d and \u201cwho has\u201d, and see does it make any sense? <\/p>\n The correct word to be used here is \u201cwhose\u201d as in \u201cGuess, whose quote is this?\u201d <\/p>\n Whose is a relative pronoun that indicates \u201cbelonging to someone\u201d. In other words it shows possession. For instance,<\/p>\n \u201cWhose car is this?\u201d Today while browsing the net, I stumbled on a website that had a huge collection of quotes and read \u201cGuess, who\u2019s quote is this?\u201d Well, who\u2019s and whose are commonly confused words in English. Both these words have same pronunciation but completely different meaning. Consider these sentences: \u201cWho\u2019s there?\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s the manager?\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s the man who\u2019s in charge of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[75,98,127,131,130,129,128],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-dos-and-donts","tag-confusing-words","tag-grammar","tag-who","tag-who-and-whose","tag-whos","tag-whose","tag-whovswhose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u201cWho\u2019s the manager?\u201d
\n \u201cHe\u2019s the man who\u2019s in charge of the department.\u201d
\n<\/em>
\nIn each of these sentences we were saying:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWho is the manager\u201d?
\n\u201cHe\u2019s the man who is in charge of the department.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cJack is the person whose car is parked in the garage\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"