Pronouns · CEFR B2 · Confident
whose / whom — English pronouns
Whose shows belonging and works for people and things. Whom is the object form of who, and in speech people simply use who instead.
The shape
the man whose car… · the person whom I met…
Handle the two relative pronouns people avoid.
In Hindi
whose मालिकाना दिखाता है। whom, who का कर्म रूप है — बोलचाल में लोग who ही कहते हैं।
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The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
The man who car was stolen. | The man whose car was stolen. Belonging needs "whose", not "who". |
Learn these first
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Questions people ask
- What is the whose / whom used for?
- Whose shows belonging and works for people and things. Whom is the object form of who, and in speech people simply use who instead. In practice: handle the two relative pronouns people avoid.
- How do you form the whose / whom?
- the man whose car… · the person whom I met….
- What is the most common mistake with the whose / whom?
- Saying “The man who car was stolen.” instead of “The man whose car was stolen.”. Belonging needs "whose", not "who".
Where whose / whom fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
whose / whom is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to pronouns. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
Reading it is not the same as saying it.
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