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who’s ~ whose

[the same pronunciation, as in ‘whose’ that rhymes with “lose”]

“Who’s” is ‘the short form of ‘who is’ or ‘who has’ depending on the context’,

e.g.

Who’s there? =  Who is there?

Who’s done this? =  Who has done this?

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“Whose” (determiner & relative pronoun) is used ‘to ask which person, persons or thing/things a particular thing belongs to’; as a relative pronoun, it shows ‘the relationship between a person or people or a thing(s) and something or someone that belongs to that person, people or thing(s)’,

e.g.

Whose is this? =   which person does ‘this’ belong to?

Whose book is this? =  To which person(s) does this book belong?

That’s the girl whose father was a doctor.     [i.e. that is a girl and her father was a doctor]

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