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Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Mei Jen in China about the usage of two words that sound the same.
你好！本周《名师答疑》，我们回答来自中国的梅珍提出的一个问题，是关于两个发音相同的单词的用法。
Dear Teacher, I have some question(s) about the words whose and who’s.
亲爱的老师，我对whose和who’s这两个词有一些疑问。
I sometimes have confusion when I hear.
我有时听到这两个词的时候会感到分不清。
I am not always sure what word I am hearing.
我不确定我听到的是什么词。
Can you please share with me your advice?
可以和我分享你的建议吗？
Thank you for writing to us Mei Jen.
感谢你给我们写信，梅珍。
I’m happy to answer this question.
我很高兴回答这个问题。
The easiest way to know which word you are hearing is to listen for the words that follow it.
要知道你听到的是哪个单词，最简单的方法是听它后面的单词。
We contract, or join together, the two words who is to make the contraction “who’s.”
我们将who is这两个单词连在一起，构成缩写形式who’s。
Often, the next word you hear after “who’s” is a verb, as in these examples:
通常，在who’s之后听到的单词是动词，例如在这些例子中：
Who’s going to help us?
谁会帮助我们？
Who’s making all that noise?
谁在制造噪音？
Who’s using this computer?
谁在用这台电脑？
Sometimes, you will hear a prepositional phrase or a noun phrase after the contraction “who’s.”
有时候，你会在缩写who’s后面听到一个介词短语或名词短语。
Who’s in the office today?
今天谁在办公室？
Who’s the director of that film?
谁是那部电影的导演？
Last, we can contract the word “who” with the verb “has.”
最后，我们可以将单词who与动词has缩写。
So, the sentence “Who has already seen this film?” sounds like this: Who’s already seen this film?
所以Who has already seen this film?（谁已经看过这部电影了？）这个句子听起来是这样的：Who’s already seen this film?
Now, let’s look at the possessive “whose,” spelled w-h-o-s-e.
现在，让我们来看一下所有格whose，拼写为w-h-o-s-e。
We use it to ask about who owns or has something.
我们用它来询问谁拥有某物。
So, you should listen for a noun after the pronoun “whose,” or you can listen for the adjectives “this,” “that,” “these,” or “those.”
所以，你应该在代词whose后面听见一个名词，或者你可以听见形容词this，that，these或those。
For example, if we see a book on a desk and we do not know who owns it, we can ask either of the following questions:
例如，如果我们看到桌子上有一本书，而我们不知道是谁的，我们可以问以下任意一个问题：
Whose book is this?
这是谁的书？
Whose book is that?
那是谁的书？
You can hear the noun “book,” and you can also hear the adjectives “this” and “that” at the end of the question.
你可以听到名词book，你也可以在问句的结尾听到形容词this和that。
We use the word “this” if we are close to the book.
如果我们离书很近，我们就用this这个词。
If we are farther away from the book, we use the word “that.”
如果我们离书较远，我们使用that这个词。
We use the adjectives “these” and “those” for plural things.
我们使用形容词“这些”和“那些”来表示复数的事物。
Whose shoes are these?
这些是谁的鞋？
Whose bags are those?
那些是谁的包？
We can also place the contraction “who’s” and the possessive “whose” at the beginning of a noun clause.
我们也可以将缩写who’s和所有格whose放在名词性从句的开头。
The noun clause begins after the main verb of the sentence, as in these examples:
名词性从句在句子的主要动词之后，如以下示例：
I want to know who’s going to drive the bus.
我想知道谁将驾驶公共汽车。
I want to know whose idea this was.
我想知道这是谁的主意。
You can learn more about the possessive “whose,” including its use in relative clauses, in this Everyday Grammar on The Mysterious Word ‘Whose’.
你可以在《日常语法》的“神秘单词Whose”节目中了解更多关于所有格whose的信息，包括它在关系从句中的用法。
We hope today’s lesson is helpful, Mei Jen.
希望今天的课对你有帮助，梅珍。
And that’s Ask a Teacher.
这就是本期的《名师答疑》。
I’m Andrew Smith.
我是安德鲁·史密斯。
