Declension of INterrogative - Pronouns - Parts Of Speech-ESL/Learn English Grammar

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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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