Grammar Question - Who v.s. Whose

Pjesse
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:32:41 +0000

This is a pretty tough one to explain, but I’ll give it a shot:

Who is an inquisitive word, as well as a relative pronoun. It’s mostly used in questions (who did this?) or when someone refers to himself(I was the one who did this)

Whose is used possessively. It is also a relative pronoun, but it’s ALWAYS used possessively. (Whose car is this?)

There is no real pattern because these two words are so commonly used, but the main difference between them is that ‘whose’ always refers to a possession.