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Let’s take a small drift to the left-side of our brains for a while and look at another slightly abused grammar problem.
who’s vs. whose
If you use who’s, it should always stand for who is or who has.
Example:
Who’s going to the game tomorrow night?
(Who is going to the game tomorrow night?)
It’s really quite simple. Whenever you use who’s, substitute who is or who has in the sentence. If it works, you’re using the word correctly. If it doesn’t work, whose is correct, which is the possessive form.
Example:
Whose coat are you wearing?
Grammar is really very logical if we’ll only give it a chance. The main problem is that it contains all of these twisted words like gerunds and split infinitives that make our teeth hurt.
Think LOGICALLY and you’ll be so much better off than you think as far as grammar is concerned. 
Robin
are these sentenses right ?
Comment by shahrookh 09.15.07 @ 11:35 pmwhose parents drive to work?
whose wife ia a teacher ?
[…] You’re/your and whose/who’s and it’s/its’/its form an entire subset of the apostrophe abuse issue all on their own. It gives me a headache on top of the hives to think about it. We’ve all screwed these up once in a while, as have I if I’m tired or distracted while typing, but in general it isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be. Really. […]
Pingback by Mimiboo Too » Return of Grumpy Grammar Girl 05.06.08 @ 4:27 pmI love it–a headache on top of the hives! You’re right though. When we’re tired, we all make mistakes. I also have certain rules that I just can’t seem to get right, no matter how many times I hear them. They drive me nuts.
“Grumpy Grammar Girl” — very cute!
Robin
Comment by robin 05.07.08 @ 9:52 amYou know which one gets me?? Semi-colon usage. I know, it’s a strange thing to get worked up about, but incorrect usage of the semi-colon makes me crazy. So much so that I even posted about it!
http://writinghappily.com/?p=49
Comment by KN Singer 08.28.08 @ 2:35 pmI read your post–it’s a good one. I guess we all have our little hangups, don’t we?
Thanks for visiting!
Robin
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