Which of the following sentences is grammatically incorrect?
Correct answer: D. Who's jacket is this?
- A. Is this your jacket?
- B. Whose jacket is this?
- C. Is this jacket yours?
- D. Who's jacket is this?
Explanation
Another way to ask this question is to say "To whom does this jacket belong?", so we're talking about possession. "Who's" is a contraction that's short for "who is" or "who has", and it does not show ownership. The corrected form is noted above.
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