WHO, WHOM, WHOSE ET WHICH. Relier des phrases simples comme c'est cette jeune fille QUI m'a parlé l'autre jour, peut devenir compliqué en anglais si on n'utilise pas les bons pronoms relatifs. Voici quelques petites notes pour vous aider à mieux les différencier: Who: utilisé pour des personnes uniquement. exemple : He's the man WHO bought
Whose can indeed be used in reference to either animate or inanimate entities. Both uses go back to Old English, in which genitive hwæs 'whose' was used in all genders, in despite that nominative hwa 'who' and accusative hwone 'whom' were masculine and feminine, while nominative-accusative hwæt 'what' was solely neuter.
The witnesses whom I interviewed gave conflicting evidence. The vacuum scared our cat Scooter, who was sleeping on the rug. Whose can be used for people, animals or things: The man whose daughter won the tournament is a tennis coach. A dog whose owner lets it run loose may cause an accident. The tree whose branches shade my kitchen window is an
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