13.6 Question-word questions (2): 'When?', 'Where?', 'Which?', 'Whose?'
13.6C
Study:
F*1Write: Fill in the blanks with Whose?or Who?.1 .W.ttë does this pen belong to? - It's John's.
2 pencil is this? - It's Kate's.
3 do those books belong to? - They're both mine.
4 are those socks on the floor? - They're Karl's.
5 book is this? - It's Maria's.
6 gloves are these? - They're Suzanne's.
7 children are they? - My neighbour's.
8 son is he? - He's John and Jean's.
9 's at the front door?
10 are these children? - They're Mike and Shona's from next door.13.6D Context
Write: Put in When?, Where?, Which?, Who?or Whose?.WHO DID WHAT AND WHEN?
What we believe depends on our view of the world. For example, if we
ask, '^1 was America discovered?', most of us would think of
Christopher Columbus in 1492. But Chinese children learn that Hui
Shen, a Buddhist monk, got to America 1000 years earlier than
Columbus.^2 was printing invented by and^3
year was it invented? You immediately think of Gutenberg in 1436, but
Chinese children learn that it was invented by Bi Shen in 1041.(^4) invention is spaghetti? It's the invention of the Italians, you
will say. Wrong again. The Chinese had it before them.^5
and^6 was the compass invented? Answer: in China in 200
B.C.^7 was silk-making invented? Not in Persia, as you
might think, but in China.^8 was the first country to put a
man into space and^9 was he? The Soviet Union, you will
say and the man's name was Yuri Gagarin. But according to the
Chinese, Wan Hu made an attempt long before Yuri.^10 do
you think? - In A.D. 1500! He sat in a chair attached to 47 rockets,
holding a giant kite which would help him return to earth. He never came
back!
He never came back!
'Whose?' [> LEG 13.39]
1 Whose?asks about possession. The possessor is always a person and we expect the answer
to be somebody's name + 's (Kate's) or a possessive pronoun (mine).
2 When the possession is a thing or a substance, we can omit the noun after Whose:
Whose (umbrella/coffee) is this?- It's mine.
3 When the 'possession' is a person, we normally use a noun after Whose:
Whose son/daughter is he/she?- Kate's. Whose children are they? - The Lakers'.
4 We can also phrase questions with Whose in the following way:
Whose is this umbrella? (Compare: Whose umbrella is this?)
Whose are those children? (Compare: Whose children are they?)