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Tenacious Learner Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

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Hi teachers,

Which one is an acceptable deninition?

a) The question word whose introduces questions about possession.

b) The question word whose introduces questions about the possessor or possessors of one o more things.

Is there a better one?

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

a) may be sufficient for your purposes, but as you may surmise yourself, b) is more complete. CJ

— CalifJim

  • a) may be sufficient for your purposes, but as you may surmise yourself, b) is more complete.
  • CJ
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a) may be sufficient for your purposes, but as you may surmise yourself, b) is more complete.

CJ
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Hi CalifJim,

Thank you very much. I didn't know the word 'surmise', now I do!

I'll use a) to introduce the question word 'whose' for the very first time, and b) for further times.

By the way, are these good directions?

Information to consider: the students have a drawing with a woman and a cat in her arms. The woman's name is given.

Question (det
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Thinking SpainI didn't know the word 'surmise', now I do!
That's why I used it. There is method in my madness!

Thinking SpainI'll use a) to introduce the question word 'whose' for the very first time, and b) for further times.
Sounds like a plan.
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CalifJim
Thinking SpainI didn't know the word 'surmise', now I do!
That's why I used it. There is method in my madness!

Keep on with it!!
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Thinking SpainSo (determine the name of the animal) it's absolutely wrong!
No, it's not wrong. It's just that you are asking it in a context where your student has already acclimated himself to the way you ask questions and expect them to be answered, so in this case your students have the advantage over me.

This method does have the disadvantage, ho
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CalifJimThis method does have the disadvantage, however, that students begin to feel that there is only one way to ask a question and only one way to answer it,
Uphs! You've said, 'This method does have the disadvantage ..' I do understand the meaning of 'does' in your comentary. But believe me, there's a lot of information from Chapter 1-20. There are
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