Timeline for Can “whose” refer to an inanimate object?
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| Mar 11 at 13:07 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'A reaction whose half-life changes when the reactant concentration is changed is a ...' [Libre Texts] Plus many formal examples of "a ruling whose"; ' "a situation whose" +parliament'. Even some of "a crime whose" [+ cause, form, definition ...] The usage is found across all registers. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 4:39 | comment | added | 11qq00 | +1. Without reordering the sentence, this is the truest non-living counterpart of "whose", workable into any context. | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 17:41 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Dec 22, 2015 at 17:25 | history | answered | Bob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |