DECLENSION OF INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
101. The following are all the interrogative forms:--
SING. AND PLUR. SING. AND PLUR. SINGULAR
_Nom._ who? which? what?
_Poss._ whose? -- --
_Obj._ whom? which? what?
In spoken English, _who_ is used as objective instead of _whom_; as,
"_Who_ did you see?" "_Who_ did he speak to?"
[Sidenote: _To tell the case of interrogatives._]
102. The interrogative _who_ has a separate form for each case,
consequently the case can be told by the form of the word; but the
case of _which_ and _what_ must be determined exactly as in nouns,--by
the _use_ of the words.
For instance, in Sec. 99, _which_ is nominative in the first sentence,
since it is subject of the verb _had_; nominative in the second also,
subject of _doth love_; objective in the last, being the direct
object of the verb _shall take_.
[Sidenote: _Further treatment of_ who, which _and_ what.]
103. _Who_, _which_, and _what_ are also relative pronouns; _which_
and _what_ are sometimes adjectives; _what_ may be an adverb in some
expressions.
They will be spoken of again in the proper places, especially in the
treatment of indirect questions (Sec. 127).
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