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Is it entirely correct to use the adjective 'whose' when the grammatical subject is not a person but a thing? For instance,

The first poem whose publication he ever sanctioned

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    Jan 31, 2018 at 1:30

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It's not “wrong” but there are other ways to say it, e.g. The first poem that he sanctioned for publication.

Now, for who and which there's definitely a strong division for animate / inanimate.

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