Who vs. Whom: What's the Difference? Who and whom are pronouns used to indicate a question about a subject or object group. Pronouns are either nominative, objective or possessive in their use. Who is used when it replaces the subject performing the action. Whom is used when it replaces the subject receiving the action. For example: How to use the words 'who', 'whom', 'that', 'which', 'where'. Relative pronouns and relative adverbs introduce relative clauses. 'Who' - 'whose' - 'whom' - 'that' and 'which' - are relative pronouns. 'Where' is a relative adverb. There is often confusion about the use of who, whose, whom, that, which or where. As we have seen above, whose is a possessive pronoun that is used to indicate possession. Who's is the contracted form of who is, used in informal speech or for brevity. The best way to remember the difference between whose and who's is to see if the sentence still makes sense when replacing it with who is . The customers, all of whom are nice, bought many items. Using Whose. Whose is a possessive pronoun like his, her, our, and their. In direct questions, we use whose to find out which person something belongs to. Examples: Whose car is parked in the driveway? Whose ticket is this? Whose coat were you wearing? In adjective clauses, whose is used 19lnvrS.

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