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The pronouns that introduce a question are interrogativepronouns.

The interrogative pronouns are: who, whom, what, which, whose.

The antecedent of an interrogative pronoun is most often the answer to the question.

The pronoun 'who' always functions as a subject. The pronoun 'who' takes the place of a singular or plural antecedent, a word for a person.

  • Example: Who gave you the flowers?

The pronoun 'whom' always functions the object in a prepositional phrase. The prepositional phrase functions as the subject of the sentence. The pronoun 'whom' takes the place of a singular or plural antecedent, a word for a person.

  • Example: With whom are you going to the party?

The pronoun 'what' takes the place of a word for a thing. The pronoun 'what' takes the place of a singular or plural antecedent.

  • Examples: What is that? What are those?

The pronoun 'which' takes the place of a singular or plural antecedent from a choice of two or more people or things.

  • Examples: Which is your favorite? Which are your favorites?

The pronoun 'whose' is a possessive form. The pronoun 'whose' takes the place of a singular or plural antecedent, a word for a person (or people) that possess something in the sentence.

  • Examples: Whose entry won a prize? Whose entries won prizes?

Note: The interrogative pronouns also function as relative pronouns, a word that introduces a relative clause.

  • Example: The person whose entry won was the winner last year.
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