Whose vs Was - What's the difference?
whose | was |
Of whom, belonging to whom; (used as an interrogative pronoun).
Of whom, belonging to whom; (used as a relative pronoun).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Of which, belonging to which; (used as a relative pronoun).
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(proscribed, dialect) .
* 1913 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt
(colloquial)
* 2001 , Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom (page 104)
As a pronoun whose
is of whom, belonging to whom; used as an interrogative pronoun.As a verb was is
form of First-person singular simple past tense indicative|be|lang=en.whose
English
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- (=This man's dog caused the accident.)
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- (=The roofs are falling off several houses we saw.)
was
English
Verb
(head)- "Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"
- “What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”