Варианты произношения
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/huːz/
Примечания к произношению
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Определитель
Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
Употребление- interrogative
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Whose (wallet) is this?
We should buy a house. ~ With whose money?
Другие примеры (1)
For whose benefit are you acting.?
Of whom, belonging to whom.
Употребление- relative
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This is the man whose dog caused the accident.
Venus, whose sister is Serena, won the latest championship.
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I dedicate this award to my parents, without whose help I wouldn't have made it this far.
The victim was a youngster, both of whose eyes were missing.
It is Marconi whose name is associated with the development of radio.
Ammon is an Egyptian god near whose temple ammonia and ammoniac were said to come.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
This Duke Ricardo, Señores, as you probably know, is a grandee from Spain whose lands are the best in Andalucía.
Of which, belonging to which.
Употребление- relative
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We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.
Местоимение
That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
Употребление- interrogative
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Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?
He asked whose the umbrella was.
That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
Употребление- relative
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This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.
For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Другие примеры (2)
If he starts it on another man's lands, and kills it there, it belongs to the owner of the land; but if he start game on one man's lands, and pursue it to those of another, and kill it there, it is neither the property of the man on whose lands it is started, nor of him on whose it is killed, but belongs to the killer.
The notes on authors are extremely brilliant and incisive, not always in good perspective and sometimes freaky in their wit, as, for instance, the reference to Mrs. Holmes, of whose books it is said, "The secret of their long popularity has never been divulged by their readers," and Mrs. Harris, of whose it is said, "To a lively mind they should be conducive of profound sleep," which, whatever its faults, is by no means true of "Rutledge."