WELCOME... IT'S GRAMMAR TIME!!! QUESTION WORDS, PART 2!!!

Welcome everbody to this new entry of Montcada in English. Last time we talked about question words such as What, When, Where and Which and their respective explanations. Today I’d like to focus on those question words which are related to people: Who, Whom, Whose.

To understand how to use who, whom, and whose you first have to understand the difference between subjects, objects, and possessive forms.

Subjects do an action.

For example:

He loves movies.

She goes to school.

We enjoy Chinese food.

Objects receive an action.

For example:

The teachers like him.

Thomas knows her.

The actor smiled at us.

Possessive forms tell us the person something belongs to:

For example.

His bike is broken.

I like her new book.

The teacher graded our homework.

Who is a subject pronoun like he, she and we in the examples above. We use it to ask which person does an action or which person is a certain way.

For Example:

Who are you? ----------------------------------------- Quién eres?

Who is in the kitchen? ------------------------------ Quién está en la cocina?

Whom is an object pronoun like him, her and us. We use it to ask which person receives an action.

For Example:

Whom are you going to invite? ------------------ A quién invitarás?

Whom did he blame for the accident? -------- A quién culpó por su accidente?

Whom did he hire to do the job? -------------- A quién contrataron para el trabajo?

Whose is a possessive pronoun like his, her and ours.  We use it to find out which person something belongs to.

For Example:

Whose camera is this? -------------------------- De quién es esta camara?

Whose dog is barking outside? ------------ De quién es el perro que ladra afuera?

Well people, as far as I concerned I’m done!!! I hope this information will be useful for you!!!

C Ya!