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12/09/09, 10:17 AM
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Grammar question
Ok I've got the who/whom thing worked out years ago (if you could say he the you use who, for him use whom) but I ran into a problem a while ago. Can you contract "who is" to "who's"?
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12/09/09, 10:26 AM
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According to my Little, Brown Compact Handbook, Fourth Edition, on page 263:
Yes.
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12/09/09, 10:38 AM
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Oh yes. Remember the "who's who"?
from Common Errors in English Usage:
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This is one of those cases where it is important to remember that possessive pronouns never take apostrophes, even though possessive nouns do (see it’s/its). “Who’s” always and forever means only “who is,” as in “Who’s that guy with the droopy mustache?” or “who has,” as in “Who’s been eating my porridge?” “Whose” is the possessive form of “who” and is used as follows: “Whose dirty socks are these on the breakfast table?”
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12/09/09, 10:54 AM
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But I thought "Who's" is on first base, and "Who is" was on third? Or do I have that backwards?
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I'm not sure whose grammar rules you'd chose, but who's is "who is".
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12/09/09, 12:51 PM
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That's what I thought but in a system where every rule has at least 100 exceptions I thought it best to check it out.
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What's on third.
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Who's is an abbreviation for 'who is'. It isn't often seen in written language, however. I prefer to see it written as 'who is' - erring on the side of caution!
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12/09/09, 04:12 PM
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But I thought "Who's" is on first base, and "Who is" was on third? Or do I have that backwards?
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Who's on first, What's on second, and I don't know is on third.
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12/09/09, 04:42 PM
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Who cares?
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12/09/09, 04:46 PM
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Just don't try "Whom's your Daddy"!
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who's claims ownership.like who's truck is that?
who is- who is that tall guy over there in the corner?
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Who's On First? I love that skit. I recently had to find that to share with my young nieces and nephews who had never seen it.
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Or whose.
From http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com...whoswhose.html
Who knows the difference between who's and whose? Here's a lesson whose time has come.
Who's
Who's is a contraction of who is or, less commonly, who has.
Who's watching TV?
Do you know who's going to speak?
Who's ready to go?
Who's in the kitchen?
Who's this?
Who's already eaten?
Whose
Whose is the possessive of who or, somewhat controversially, which.
Whose book is this?
Do you know whose car this is?
I know a woman whose kids study there.
Whose side are you on?
An idea whose time has come.
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What C T said.
who's = who is
whose = possessive form
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"With all the children running around, it's sometimes difficult to tell who's whose (to whom they belong)."
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ROFLMAO.
They tried to tell me on the goat board that grammar doesn't matter, and here's this *delightful* discussion.
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My Grammer never asked whose is it. She just said it's yerin.
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Unless you're from Indiana, in which case you'd say, "Hoosier daddy?"
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