1. Interrogative Pronouns
Who, Which, What, Whom, Whose

2. What are interrogative Pronouns?
Essential Question
What are interrogative Pronouns?
An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used to introduce an interrogative sentence.

3. Interrogative Pronouns
The interrogative pronouns who and whom both refer to people.
Who is used when the interrogative pronoun is the subject of the sentence.
Example:
Who is Pandora? Who gives Pandora her name?

4. Interrogative Pronouns
The interrogative pronouns who and whom both refer to people.
Whom is used when the interrogative pronoun is the object of a verb or preposition.
Example:
Whom does Zeus call?
For Whom does Hephaestus make a staff?

5. Interrogative Pronouns
Subject or object
Who gives Pandora her name?
Subject of the sentence
Whom does Zeus dislike?
Direct object of the verb
To whom does Zeus give a gift?
Object of the preposition

6. Interrogative Pronouns
The interrogative pronouns which and what are used to refer to things.
Example:
Some gifts are for Pandora.
Which are they?
Athena makes Pandora a robe.
What does Hephaestus make?

7. Interrogative Pronouns
The interrogative pronoun whose shows that someone possesses something.
Example:
The jar is in Pandora’s house. Whose is it?

8. Interrogative Pronouns
DO NOT confuse Who’s with Whose
Example:
Who’s reading the myth. (contraction for who is)
Whose lightening bolt is this? (interrogative pronoun)