Learner uses whose for possession, where for places and when for times, and stops replacing them with which + preposition constructions they cannot control.
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Six phrases across the small set.
the student ___ father is a doctor
Whose on people and things, place and time, and the formal alternative.
the student whose father is a doctor
the company whose profits fell
It is followed directly by the thing that belongs. Never whose his.
And it works for things, not only people.
Eight phrases against four relative words.
Terms
Definitions
Eight sentences. Two accept the formal version too.
The student ______ results improved most won a prize. →
The town ______ she was born has fewer than a thousand people. →
2008 was the year ______ the financial system nearly collapsed. →
Nobody could explain the reason ______ the scheme failed. →
The company ______ profits doubled has since been sold. →
This is the building ______ the treaty was signed. →
He described the house ______ he spent his childhood. →
The committee ______ report was leaked has resigned. →
Twelve phrases across four buckets.
Sort each item into the correct category
One where, one whose.
Topic: a place you know well, and a person or organisation you know something about.
Sentence 1: use where. Sentence 2: use whose.
Remember what follows whose: the thing that belongs, directly.
One per line.
Six cards, including the formal alternative.