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Question 9

Possessive-relative check: select all sentences that correctly use whose.

  1. The company which staff work remotely expanded.
  2. The cyclist whose helmet cracked was unhurt.Correct answer
  3. The sculpture that surface gleams was cleaned.
  4. The theatre whose roof leaked closed early.Correct answer

Explanation

Both the cyclist and the theatre can be antecedents of whose because the form marks possession for people and things. The company which staff is the closest distractor, but which alone cannot modify staff possessively.

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