whose. What is who? First up, let’s introduce this exceptionally tricky pronoun. It has several forms, and many a brave soul has cowered in the attempt to use it correctly. Who Who is one of the interrogative pronouns, along with what and which. Of those three, who is the one ...
Knowing these rules will help you to use pronouns correctly in your writing. Personal pronouns A personal pronoun can refer to you, the person you’re addressing, an animal, or an object. They can be used when speaking in the first, second, and third person and may change their form ...
Again, if you’re using "who’s" as a contraction for "who is," it’s appropriate to use an apostrophe. But when you’re wondering to whom an object belongs, use "whose." Let’s clarify with a few examples.Whose tennis shoes are in the way? I can’t decide whose story I like...
First you play the role of li yang fang and then the role of Susan you partner Mike has and Kim sun you are at the airport to meet you visitor you know each other so great you visit first talk with him and then take him to the hotel. Pledged to meet you representative someone answe...
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”—Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo “If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here—and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing....
My mother emailed me last week to ask if she was using the word “nor” correctly, which brings us to today’s post: the use of either or and neither nor.
Now the teacher asks the question(3 above) again and the students try to answer it: Now you've heard the story, whose handbag is it? Don't let students shout out the answer. Train them to raise their hands if they think they know the answer. Get one student to answer, then ask th...
When used properly, male condoms are about 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. This means that in one year, 2 out of every 100 women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB) whose partners always use condoms correctly will get pregnant. That number rises to 18 out of every 100 women...
When you put email address(es) in the Cc field, you send a copy of the email to those recipient(s) for their information only, indicating that no reply is required or expected. Those email addresses are also visible to the main recipient (whose address is in the “To” field) and the...
The problem how to use experts whose competence is unknown has been studied in several recent papers. It has been assumed that after we have made a prediction we learn the actual value of the predicted event. In some situations, however, we do not learn the actual outcomes. This is the ...