anyone else's/anyone's else(?)
His article is better than ____ in the class. A. anyone's else B. anyone else's
C. anyone's else's D. anyone else(全国高教自考,95-16)
我知道这里应当用所有格形式,但 anyone else 的所有格形式到底是 A,还是 B 呢?
要记住,someone else,somebody else,anyone else,anybody else,who else 的所有格(属格)结尾-s 要加在 else 的后面,故上题的答案为 B。
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I must be drinking someone else's coffee. 我一定是喝了别人的咖啡。
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His hair is longer than anybody else's. 他的头发比任何人的头发都长。
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You will have to borrow someone else's car. 你必须借别人的汽车。
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His work is better than ____. A. anyone B. anyone else C. anyone else's D. anyone's else
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—— Whose hat is it? —— It's _ hat. A. somebody else's B. somebody else C. somebody's else's D. somebody's else else
who else's/whose else
If this is not his, ____ can it be? A. whose else's B. whose else C. who else's D. who else 答案为 C, 但我认为 B 也是正确的。
who else's 和 whose else 在英语原著中都是可以查到实例的。
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Whose else could it be? 它可能是谁的呢?
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Who else's fault could it be? 那可能是谁的错误呢?
但是 who else's 用得较为普遍,而 whose else 主要用于后面不接名词的情况。由此看来,上题的选项 C 和选项 B 都是正确的。①