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Which of the three sentences is the most appropriate and why.Thanks a millions for answering my question.
1.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers of which can be found in the paragraph.
2.- Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph.
3.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
1.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers of which can be found in the paragraph.
2.- Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph.
3.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
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- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers for which can be found in the paragraph. - Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph. - Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
- - Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers for which can be found in the paragraph.
- - Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph.
- - Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
- #2 is the least awkward.
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1.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers for which can be found in the paragraph.
2.- Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph.
3.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
#2 is the least awkward.
1.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers for which can be found in the paragraph.
2.- Frame at least ten wh-questions whose answers can be found in the paragraph.
3.- Frame at least ten wh-questions the answers to which can be found in the paragraph.
#2 is the least awkward.
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I like number three. I think "whose" works best for people and other living things.
What is your answer to/of my question? I think only "to" is idiomatic.
What is your answer to/of my question? I think only "to" is idiomatic.
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As far back as Jesperson (1933), 'whose' is recognized as the way to avoid the postponed 'of/to/in which', Avangi, and that is still the view in Leech & Svartvik (1994) . A hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog (Stevenson).
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As far back as Jesperson (1933), 'whose' is recognized as the way to avoid the postponed 'of/to/in which', Avangi, and that is still the view in Leech & Svartvik (1994) . A hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog (Stevenson).
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Thanks, MrM. I don't know why I have an aversion to it. Perhaps something in an earlier life. I'll work on it. 
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AvangiI don't know why I have an aversion to it.I once had a teacher who had an aversion to it. The jerk would mark it wrong any time anyone used whosethat way. Ridiculous!
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CalifJim The jerk would mark it wrong any time anyone used whose that way.I don't think it could have been I. I never taught English.
Whenever I sing, "Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight," I think of it as personification. It's probably okay, because the sentence doesn't have a subject anyway.
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