3000 English common words - Oxford by CEFR
Huːz House I Determiner Pronoun Man Opinion Respect
Word3 |
whose |
WordType |
(determiner, pronoun) |
Phonetic |
/huːz/ /huːz/ |
Example |
- whose house is that?
- i wonder whose this is.
- he's a man whose opinion i respect.
- it's the house whose door is painted red.
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Sound |
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Content |
whose(determiner, pronoun)/huːz/ /huːz/- used in questions to ask who something belongs to
- Whose house is that?
- I wonder whose this is.
- used to say which person or thing you mean
- He's a man whose opinion I respect.
- It's the house whose door is painted red.
- used to give more information about a person or thing
- Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
Word Origin- Old English hwæs, genitive of hwā ‘who’ and hwæt ‘what’.
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