Writing Help: Who’s vs. Whose
This is part of the series:
- Grammar Helper
- Grammar Helper: Ensure, Assure, Insure
- Grammar Helper: There, Their, They're
- Grammar Helper: Appraise vs. Apprise
- Grammar Helper: Idea vs. Ideal
- Grammar Helper: Commas in a series
- Grammar Helper: Who and Whom (simple version)
- Grammar Helper: I vs. Me
- Writing Help: Who's vs. Whose
- Writing Helper: Just Thinking to Myself
- Writing Helper: Poor and Pour, Then and Than
- Grammar Helper: Its vs It's
- Writing Helper: Breath vs. Breathe, Bath vs. Bathe
- Cite, sight and site
- Writing Helper: Stationary vs. Stationery
- Writing Helper: Lose vs. Loose
- Avoiding the Passive Voice
- Possessive vs. Plural: Getting it Right
- Writing Helper: A lot
- Writing Helper: Bath vs Bathe
- Writing Helper: Choose vs Chose
- Writing Helper: Idea vs. Ideal
Whose and who’s are often confused, but it’s easy to tell when to use each if you take a second to think about the two.
Who’s is a contraction for “who is.” That, by itself, is enough for you to tell when to use each. Isn’t that simple?
Who’s going to the mall with me?
You can mentally translate this to “Who is going to the mall with me?”
Whose car is that?
Try to translate this to “who is.” You get, “Who is car is that?” It doesn’t make sense, does it?
So, while it may take a moment to think through, the difference between the two isn’t as difficult as it might first appear. Thanks to Kristy for the topic suggestion!
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