Other ways of saying whichs [duplicate]

I would appreciate your help phrasing the following:

I am looking for elements which/whose/... size/sizes is/are relatively large.

Solution 1:

Whose is the way to go here. Merriam-Webster defines it as follows:

of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors

Which wouldn't work, because it doesn't indicate possession. It would work, however, if the phrase read:

I am looking for elements which are relatively large (in size).

As to the "size is" vs "sizes are", I would say that both are grammatically correct, though the singular is preferred. The Google stats look as follows:

• "are * whose sizes are" — 94,700
• "are * whose size is" — 1,020,000

Searching the British National Corpus returns four results for "whose size is" (one of which is actually used with a plural noun, "segments whose size is"), but none for "whose sizes are".

Solution 2:

Indeed, whose is the (only) correct possessive form, for both animate (sentient) and inanimate objects.

The Wikipedia page supports this.

In addition, the possessive version of the non-sentient pronouns is the same as that of who: whose takes this role for all of them. E.g., "I will have to fix the car whose engine I ruined".

Solution 3:

The word you need is whose.

Solution 4:

Using "whose" in such cases is correct. This thread over at the Daily Writing Tips forum addresses your question: Possessive form of "which".