以前考试确实都是选father's. 但实际老外也说father,你跟老外说话就发现,很多时候都无所谓的,那个尾音常常被吞掉,听不出来。
以下是网上的资料:
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(四)与其它情况有关的命题失误
1.Miss Smith is a friend of _____ .(MET1983)
A.Mary's mother's B.Mary's mother
C.Mother's of Mary D.Mary Mother's
评析:所给标准答案是A。其实B也是地道的英语,请看佐证:
I believe you are a particular of Pickwick,the defendant, are you not?(Dickens,Pickwick Papers)
His first serious staff tussle was with H.G.Wells,a friend of Northcliffe in his youth,who had been given charge of the German department.(John O's London's weekly,March 7,1952, P.219)
a friend of +名词与a friend of +名词的所有格是英语中两个形式相似而含义不同的结构。下面是P.A.Erdes的《现代英语句法问题集》中的两个例句:
He is a friend of my father.
He is a friend of my father's.P.A Erdes认为第一句是指“朋友与父亲的关系”,强调he对my father的交情,意指He is friendly to my father.(他跟我父亲要好);第二句则表示“父亲与朋友的关系”,强调my father对he的交情,意指My fa- ther has a friend in him.(我父亲把他当作朋友)。
下面的对话更清楚地区分了这两种结构:
A:Who told you that?(这是谁告诉你的?)
B:A friend of your father's.(你父亲的一个朋友。)
A:If he says such things,he is not a friend of my father, whoever he may be.(要是他这么说,他对我父亲就不够朋友,不管他是谁。)
本题选A意为Mary's mother has a friend in Miss Smith;选B则意为Miss Smith is friendly to Mary's mother.可见答案A和B仅有含义之别,并无优劣之分,因此B也是正确的答案。
如果说a friend of +代词就不会产生歧义。代词只能用名词性物主代词,而不能用人称代词的宾格或形容词性物主代词。如Mary had been a good friend of mine.而a friend of me /you /him /her/our /your/their等则是错误的。
a picture of my father 一张画着我父亲的画像(父亲的肖像画)
a picture of my father's 一张我父亲的画像(父亲众多画像中的一张)
都可以的,当然,双重所有格用得更多些。我觉得第一本资料书说得很对。