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amistupid

oql61 wrote: »

Excellent news, Adey, but I must pick you up on a point of English grammar: 'who's' stands for 'who is'; what you needed there was the possessive pronoun 'whose'.

Still don't get I used who's as a shortened form of who is.
My father who's a butcher...... should be My father whose a butcher

amistupid

oql61 wrote: »

Dog walk ... be back later.

I hope that Paddy gets treated better than me today.

harrowing_3

amistupid wrote: »

Still don't get I used who's as a shortened from of who is.
My father who's a butcher...... should be My father whose a butcher

"whose" example would be: I met a lady whose eyes were so beautiful....

so "whose research job" would be correct form as "research job" belongs to him

Your example above is not referring to "possession"....your father doesn't possess a butcher, we hope :eek: so who's is correctly substituting "who is".

harrowing_3

All this talk of possession reminds me of

sloughflint

There's no excuse for such sloppiness nowadays

amistupid

So My sister who's a BA graduate or My sister whose a BA graduate?

harrowing_3

amistupid wrote: »

So My sister who's a BA graduate or My sister whose a BA graduate?

My sister who's a BA graduate

My sister whose husband is a pain in the ....

harrowing_3

You never knew retirement could be so stressful, did you Adey?:rotfl:

sloughflint

The one that gets me is learned and learnt.
Can anyone help? ( I'm being serious)

harrowing_3

What is the difference between 'learnt' and 'learned'?

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These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity.