prep07-148 关于whose的疑惑

晓野的野

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In contrast to some fish eggs requiring months to incubate, the Rio Grande silvery minnow produces eggs that hatch in about 24 hours, yielding larvae that can swim in just three to four days.

(A) some fish eggs requiring months to incubate

(B) some fish, whose eggs require months to incubate

(C) some fish that have eggs requiring months to incubate

(D) the requirement of months of incubation for some fish eggs

(E) requiring months of incubation, as some fish eggs do

之前看到了一些旧的解释，都没有提到这个点，所以干脆再开个贴问下

答案选B
可是
whose不是只能指代人吗，怎么又指代物（fish）了呢？

kiwifoodtown

那么，不用whose用什么？

晓野的野

那么，不用whose用什么？

-- by 会员 kiwifoodtown (2013/3/8 12:13:38)

从这个题来看，只能用whose，
但是我记得有一条规则是说，that只能指物，who/whose 只能指人，
所以看到whose指fish就觉得困惑，为什么不用 of which 啥的。

既然题中出现了，我也只能接受，但是还是想知道为什么，
whose 可以指物了吗？ 求确认

sisichen666

whose可以指人也可以指物

落薇裳

同意楼上，我记得OG中还有一题whose是指代tribes的，所以楼主这条规律记得不太准确吧
应该是who/whom只能指人，而whose指人指物都可以

ciciwenwen

曼哈顿的书里面说的很清楚，whose都可以指，既可以是物也可以是人；但是who and whom 只能指人；that不能指人；which只能指物；其中，that和whom做宾语时，可以省略，这个GMAT会认的。

AMBER513

while “who” and “whom” always refer to people, the possessive pronoun “whose” can apply either to people to inanimate things.