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Interrogative adjectives

What is an interrogative adjective?

Like all adjectives, interrogative adjectives (also known as interrogative


determiners) modify nouns and pronouns. English has three interrogative
adjectives: what, which, and whose. They are called “interrogative” because they
are usually used to ask questions. For example:

 “What book are you reading?


 “Which shirt are you going to buy?”
 “Whose computer is this?”

Generally, we use what when the amount of possible answers is unknown or


unlimited
 we use which when we either know how many choices there are, or we consider
the options to be more limited. Think about the difference between these two
sentences:

 What present do you think you’ll get for Christmas?”


 “Which present do you think you’ll get for Christmas?”

In the first sentence, the speaker does not have any idea how many possible
presents there are. In the second sentence, it seems that the speaker does have
an idea of what the presents may be, and that the choices are limited

Whose
Whose is an adjective that denotes possession, or belonging. We can use it to
ask who the owner of an object is. For example:

 “Whose socks are on the floor?”


 “Whose book is this?”
 “Whose turn is it?”

Possessives adjectives

Possessive adjectives are used to show possession or ownership of


something. While we use them when we refer to people, it is more in the
sense of relationship than ownership example:

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