Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable pronoun
___________ of these books are yours?
a)Whose
b)Which
c)Who
d)Whom

Answer 1

Hint: To answer the question, one needs to understand the context of the sentence, what or who it is talking about. Then one must know about the usage of interrogatory words.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 Interrogatory words are the words that ask a question and demand an answer for the same. Examples of such words are, ‘what’, ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘who’, etc. These need to be followed by a question mark, usually, there may of course be some exceptions to this rule in the grammar. Option ‘a’, ‘whose’ is used in a context where one wants to know about the possession of something, as in “Whose books are these?”, meaning the person wants to know to whom do the books belong. Hence, it is incorrect option. Option ‘b’, ‘which’ conveys that the question demands to know about one of the entities from a bunch of them, hence it is the correct option. Option ‘c’, ‘who’ refers to a person and not an object, hence it is an incorrect option as well. Option ‘d’, ‘whom’ again refers to a person, it is incorrect as well. Hence option ‘b’ is the correct answer.

Note: One must be very clear about the context of the sentence, what information the question demands.