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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Whose one?

Does "whose one" exist in general context?

For example,

A: I get home late everyday. Have you ever got home as late as me?
B: I have.

.......C. get in conversation.......

C: Whose one is worse?

I've heard of "which one" but I'm not sure if "whose one" does exist.

Thank you in advance.
  

Top answer

Hi, Anonymous C: Whose one is worse? No! Whose is not used that way.

— Regards

  • Hi, Anonymous C: Whose one is worse?
  • No!
  • Whose is not used that way.
  • Regards
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Hi,
AnonymousC: Whose one is worse?
No! Emotion: shake Whose is not used that way.

Regards
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"Whose" can be used as a determiner as in "whose car is worse" but "whose one" sounds very bad. You can simply ask "whose is worse?" Emotion: wink
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whose one has no sense at all
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chetan vermawhose one has no sense at all
I don't go along with that. Sometimes it is used as a pro-form. For example, someone rumaging through a box of articles may well be heard to say:

The red one is Tom's, the green one is Ed's, but whose one is this?

Perfectly natural - nothing wrong with it at all.

BillJ
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BillJThe red one is Tom's, the green one is Ed's, but whose one is this?
It must be a British thing. The same occurs with "these ones" and "those ones", which we don't have either on this side of the Atlantic. At least they are not heard much, if at all, in the US. It's far from "perfectly natural" here!
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CalifJimAt least they are not heard much, if at all, in the US. It's far from "perfectly natural" here!
Don't be so negative all the time, CJ.

There's a big wide world outside of America, believe it or not!

BillJ
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BillJDon't be so negative all the time, CJ.
I find this comment bizarre. There's nothing negative about pointing out usage differences between different varieties of English.
BillJThere's a big wide world outside of America, believe it or not!
Really? How nice of you to point that out. I would never have known otherwise.
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But is the following example ok?

There are five women in a room. Outside the room there are two men, Jack and Peter. Jack has just found a purse on the floor, and he thinks it belongs to one of the women inside the room, so he says to Peter:

Jack: I've just found this purse on the floor. I think it's her purse.

Since there are up to five women inside the room, Peter does
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AnonymousJack: I've just found this purse on the floor. I think it's her purse.Since there are up to five women inside the room, Peter doesn't know which woman is Jack talking about, so he asks Jack:Peter: whose one? There are five women in the room
'Whose one' does not work in that situation. 'Whose?' is natural enough
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