I‘m stucked in these baffling ralative pronoun questions,please help!
1. "The teapot was fashioned like a duck,out of (whose) open mouth the tea was supposed to come."

2. Gradually the road climbs among high mountains and through a dark froest (whose) huge trees shut out the light with their thick towering leaves.

My question is that why the ralative pronoun is "whose" not "which"?
I think either the "dark forest" or the "teapot" is not a person and "whose" is for antecedent of people.

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I‘m stucked in these baffling ralative pronoun questions,please help!
1. "The teapot was fashioned like a duck,out of (whose) open mouth the tea was supposed to come."

2. Gradually the road climbs among high mountains and through a dark froest (whose) huge trees shut out the light with their thick towering leaves.

My question is that why the ralative pronoun is "whose" not "which"?
I think either the "dark forest" or the "teapot" is not a person and "whose" is for antecedent of people.

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"Whose" doesn't need to be used with a person when used in this way.  It just means that the following thing is related to the previous thing.  For example "I saw a mountain whose foothills were covered with grass" is correct.

"Which" doesn't make sense in these sentences when substituted directly, however you could phrase that first sentence as "The teapot was fashioned like a duck (which had an) open mouth that the tea was supposed to come (out of)."

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These question were from a English self-taught examination, you can imagine how careless are those authorities. XD

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I think in 2 the trees had thick, towering trunks. Not leaves.

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