| 词组 | whose |
| 释义 | whose ◊ used in relative clauses You use a noun group containing whose at the beginning of a relative clause to show who or what something belongs to or is connected with. Whose is used in both defining and non-defining clauses. A noun group containing whose can be the subject or object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. When it is the object of a preposition, the preposition can come at the beginning or end of the clause. ...a woman whose husband had deserted her. ...Martin Browne, whose autobiography I have been reading. ...the governments in whose territories they operate. ...some strange fragment of thought whose origin I have no idea of. It used to be considered incorrect to use whose to refer back to things rather than people. Learners used to be taught that you should use of which to refer to a thing, not 'whose'. For example, instead of saying 'a house whose windows were broken', learners were taught to say 'a house the windows of which were broken'. I travelled in a lorry the back of which the owner had loaded with yams. However, in modern English, it is acceptable to use either whose or of which to refer back to things. ◊ used in questions You use whose in questions when you are asking who something belongs to or is connected with. Whose can be used as a determiner or a pronoun. Whose fault is it? Whose babies do you think they were? Whose is this? ◊ used in reported clauses Whose is also used in reported clauses. It would be interesting to know whose idea it was. Do you know whose fault it is? The forecasts will not say whose house is about to be broken into. For more information about reported clauses, see entry at ↑ ◊ WARNING Note that 'who is' and 'who has' are also sometimes pronounced . When you write down what someone says, you can write 'who is' or 'who has' as who's. You do not write them as 'whose'. 'Edward drove me here.' ---'Who's Edward?' ...an American author who's settled in London. |
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