<例句>
What color are the curtains?
窗簾是什么顏色?
<語法分析>
疑問代詞 what 在句子中作定語,此外還可以作主語、賓語或介詞賓語等,which 也有這樣的用法。此外,what 還可以用作表語。問候 在句子中多作主語或表語,whom 在句子中多作賓語或介詞的賓語,在緊跟介詞時只能用 whom。whose 可以用作定語、主語、表語或賓語等成分。連接代詞與疑問代詞同形,可以引導各種從句,在從句中它們可以作主語、賓語、介詞賓語、表語和定語等。
<觸類旁通>
(1) Who would like to go with me?
誰愿和我一起去?
語法分析:who 在句子中多作主語或表語。
(2) Whom are you writing to?
你在給誰寫信呀?
語法分析:whom 在句子中多作賓語或介詞的賓語。
(3) To whom did you give the parcel?
你把包裹給誰了?
語法分析:在緊跟介詞時只能用 whom,不能用 who.
(4) Whose is better, yours or hers?
誰的比較好,你的還是她的?
語法分析:whose 表示誰的,用作主語。
(5) What is your father?
你父親是干什么的?
語法分析:what還可以用作表語。
(6) Show me what you have in your hand.
把你手上的東西給我看看。
語法分析:what 引導從句,表示“the thing which...”。
(7) I will give you what help I can.
我將盡量給你幫助。
語法分析:在從句中 what 有時用作定語。
<鞏固練習>
1. _____ did you see?
2. _____ do you mean?
3. I asked him _____ came into the room.
4. Do you know _____ that girl's mother is?
5. That is _____ I want to know.
6. Let me know _____ bus you'll be arriving on.
7. I must decide _____ to do with her.
<參考答案>
1. Whom 2. What 3. who 4. what 5. what 6. which 7. what