In this short video, we'll be discussing relative clauses with 'whose'. These
relative clauses are also called possessive adjectives clauses or
possessive relative clauses. Before we start discussing these type of relative
clauses,
let's do a quick review of possessives. So, you should already know that
possessives show ownership.
They're usually nouns, for example, "The students car is black". So, we can tell
from this word right here "students" "student" apostrophe "s" and this word is
followed by car
another noun, so this shows that the car belongs to the student,
same thing with the next sentence. "Alex's car is silver." Who does the car belong to?
Alex. "The classroom's walls are painted gray."
The walls are the walls of the classroom, so we we say "classroom" apostrophe "s". The
walls belong to the classroom.
"The textbook's cover is black." The "cover" belongs to the textbook. The question's
answer is difficult to understand." The answer is the question's
"We also use possessive adjectives to show possession."
So, for example we have "His car is silver"
The car belongs to him.
"Her iphone is white."
The iphone belongs to her, and for things we use "its" "Its cover is black." The cover
belongs to it.
Notice that spelling is ITS no apostrophe. If we use an apostrophe here we are
actually saying "it is", but this is not a contraction of "it is". This is just the
word "its" the possessive adjective.
So, with relative clauses with "whose" we use "whose" to connect the relative clause
that shows possession, and "whose" is used for all nouns
even though it may seem like "whose" sounds like it's used only for people, we
use "whose" for people, things, ideas, any type of noun.
So, for example we have two sentences again,
"The author writes horror stories. Her book won the award."
You see we have the noun "the author" we're going to describe this
noun with this second sentence and we see that "her book", this "her" is referring to
the author.
So we combine these sentences. We get " The author whose book won the award writes
horror stories."
"She is the author. Many people buy her books." Again we have "author in the first
sentence. We're going to describe that with the relative clause which will be
this second sentence, and again we have "her"
"the author" and "her" are the same person. Combine the sentences and you get "She is
the author whose books many people buy." Here are two more examples.
Ok, for this second example we're going to combine these two sentences, but we're
going to see how this works step-by-step. We have "The teacher parks in the same
place every day."
"Her car is blue." So, again we want to look for the noun that's the same in both
sentences.
We have "the teacher" and then we have this possessive adjectives hear "her". "Her"
refers to the teacher, and we have the noun "car" so the car belongs to her.
"we're going to combine these two sentences. The second sentence will go
into the first sentence right after
the noun we want to describe, and we get "The teacher
her car's blue parks in the same place every day."
Now we can't leave it like this. We need to change "her" into "whose" so that is a
relative clause.
So the final sentence we get with the relative clause is "The teacher whose car
is blue parks in the same place every day."
Here's another example. "That is the musician. Everybody enjoys his music."
We look for the noun that's the same in the first and second sentence. We see
it's "the musician" and "the musician" refers to "his" in this second sentence.
The "music" belongs to "him" or "the musician". So, we combine these two sentences, and we
get "That is a musician everybody enjoys his music."
We can't leave it like this. We need to move "his music" to the front of the
relative clause right after the now we're trying to describe.
So we get, "That is a musician whose music everybody enjoys", and we can see we have
a complete sentence here,
a complex sentence with a relative clause, "That is the musician whose music
everybody enjoys." So, you try to do this relative clause with whose problem. We
have the two sentences.
"The car belongs to the professor."
"Its rear bumper is damaged."
and another example.