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whose
pronoun , adjective
1 used in questions, indirect questions and statements: belonging to which person or people Whose is this jacket? We do not know whose these are .
2 used as a relative adjective to introduce a defining clause: of whom or which buildings whose foundations are sinking .
3 used as a relative adjective to add a commenting clause my parents, without whose help I could not have succeeded .
4 used as a relative adjective, meaning -whoever's' or -whichever's' Take whose advice you will .

whose || Whose is correctly used to mean both -of whom- and -of which-: the boy whose father is a policeman the book whose pages are torn || Note that who else's is more common than whose else, because who else is regarded as a unit and whose else is more awkward to say. || Note also that who's, which is pronounced the same way as whose and is sometimes confused with it, is a contraction of who is or who has: Who's there? I'm looking for the person who's taken my pen.

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