What's the object equivalent of "whose?"

Why not just "I'm taking the dimensions of the saran wrap."

No. The personal pronoun 'who' and its variants (whom, whose) is either masculine or feminine, never neutral. Saran wrap can never be a 'who'. It is, rather, a 'which.' You could say:
'It's the Saran wrap, the dimensions of which I'm taking right now.' But that's an awkward pretentious-sounding sentence. I would just follow c.i.'s advice and simplify it.

I have to disagree. In both US and British English you can use 'whose' as an alternative to 'of which'.

Whos (MIddle English) genitive of who, what

Any dictionary will tell you that 'whose' can be a determiner meaning 'of whom or which' (used to indicate that the following noun belongs to or is associated with the person or thing mentioned in the previous clause)[/i] (Oxford dictionaries)

Whose

pronoun
1.
(the possessive case of who used as an adjective):
Whose umbrella did I take? Whose is this one?
2.
(the possessive case of which used as an adjective):
a word whose meaning escapes me; an animal whose fur changes color.
3.
the one or ones belonging to what person or persons:
Whose painting won the third prize?

(Dictionary.com - also see Oxford Dictionaries, Merriam-Webster, etc)

Further examples of usage (2):

The word whose meaning escapes me
Chicago is a city whose attractions are many
A house whose windows are broken
A story whose purpose is to entertain
An article whose subject I have never heard of
The law courts, whose decisions were important
The first poem whose publication he ever sanctioned

This is fine, except that the apostrophe in the first word is in the wrong place, and Saran Wrap is a US product name belonging to Dow Chemical which is spelled with initial capital letters (in British English we call that type of material "cling film"):

I'ts the saran wrap, whose dimensions I'm taking right now

You may be correct, but to most people's ears, it just doesn't sound right, and that's what counts in English grammar. To most of us, it's called 'standard English.'

How many in the English speaking world would use "whose" in that manner?

Thx, c.i. I was thinking the same thing.

It is very common in the British English part of the English speaking world and in the US part also. I do not agree that what "sounds right" is what counts. If an English learner asks if a particular usage is acceptable, and some people say "it doesn't sound right", which really just means "I don't hear that usage very often", and others say "look, here, it's listed in three different dictionaries from both US and British sources", who should the learner take notice of?

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I don't see anything wrong with this statement,

Nor this,

Why should you? What is your point?

We never argued about the use of that word with animate pronouns, and you still saw fit to include them in your list. What for? What's your point?

I just did a quick Google for examples of the type of usage being enquired about. I then copied whole lists of results straight off the Google page. Some examples of the other usage were present in some of the copied material. So what? If anything, it shows that both are legitimate.

So what? Just because something is admissible doesn't make it the practice of most people.

If the use was that common, I'm sure you would be able to find many examples here on a2k.


BTW, anyone can find almost anything on Google that's not considered 'normal practice.'

Regardless of what you say, using 'whose' with non-persons is very common and quite acceptable standard English. Stop trolling.

If the practice were as 'common' as your dictionaries insist, I would not have made the mistake of saying it is 'never' done. Apparently 'never' is too long a time; I do not, however, accept the judgement that the usage is 'common.'

Neither do I, and I won't attempt to guess whose wrong here! LOL

Me.

(last post: "person or thing")

Maybe JTT'll run a Google search and see just how many times it comes up in those instances.

For what it's worth, I use the word 'whose' in that way.

That's one! LOL Anybody else?
BTW, can you cut and paste one of your sentences used that way - before this became an issue on a2k? Several would even be better!