the relative pronoun "whose"?

[dihen]

Can I replace the relative pronoun "whose" with "that its/their/his/her", like in "a house that its windows are round"?

[MrPedantic]

Hello Dihen

No, that's not possible, unfortunately!

MrP

[dihen]

Originally Posted by MrPedantic

Hello Dihen
No, that's not possible, unfortunately!
MrP

What about "which its/their"?

[MrPedantic]

Hello Dihen

No, you can't say those, either!

Don't you like "whose"?

MrP

[dihen]

Do natives also make those mistakes, or only foreigners?

[Tomasz Klimkiewicz]

You can try 'The house with round windows' if you feel unexplainable detestation of the pronoun 'whose'...
All the best,

Tee Kay

[MrPedantic]

Originally Posted by dihen

Do natives also make those mistakes, or only foreigners?

Hello Dihen

Native speakers make many mistakes;but I've never heard those ones!

Is it a structure that occurs in your own first language?

MrP

[dihen]

Originally Posted by MrPedantic

Hello Dihen
Native speakers make many mistakes;but I've never heard those ones!
Is it a structure that occurs in your own first language?
MrP

Really? You really never ever have heard these ones?:

"the child that his mother is a teacher"
"the book that some of its pages are missing"
"the boy that I visited her sister"

[MrPedantic]

Hello Dihen

No, I've never heard a mistake like any of those!

Where have you heard them?

MrP

[dihen]

Actually, I have never heard them either, but I thought "Since it only requires a possessive, why not simply use 'that [possessive adjective] noun'?", but I was wrong. And really, I still think that "that [possessive adjective] noun" is much easier to understand. And I had never ever known that there is such usage of "whose" until recently. And why doesn't English allow resumptive pronouns in either relative clauses or WH-questions? "that [possessive adjective] noun" WOULD be correct if English allowed resumptive pronouns...