Whose is the car?
Google ngram does not give any result for "Whose is the car?" while it does for "Whose car is it?". I thought both were equivalent and said with equal frequency by native speakers. Can any native speaker confirm that the first sentence doesn't sound natural or people simply don't say it? Or do they? Thanks.
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Hi I'm not sure how much faith to put in Google ngram. ' but it's not something I'd hear every day Possibly, that's because, as a slightly slangy use, it wouldn't have that many words. ' you get a reading, peaking in mid-1930s to mid-1940s, and again trending upward more recently Dave
- Hi I'm not sure how much faith to put in Google ngram.
- ' but it's not something I'd hear every day Possibly, that's because, as a slightly slangy use, it wouldn't have that many words.
- ' you get a reading, peaking in mid-1930s to mid-1940s, and again trending upward more recently Dave
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I'm not sure how much faith to put in Google ngram. Of course, I can understand 'Whose is the car?' but it's not something I'd hear every day
Possibly, that's because, as a slightly slangy use, it wouldn't have that many words. If you graph 'Whose car?' you get a reading, peaking in mid-1930s to mid-1940s, and again trending upward more recently
Dave
0anonymous"Whose is the car?"
It's rather formal so it's unlikely to be used with "car", but it is used with higher-register words. Personally, I don't use it.
Here's a search on "whose is the" which may interest you.
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