can you help me please?

Question

hi guys, i'm an italian girl, i need to know which of these sentences are grammatically correct:
Whose magazines are they? or Whose magazines are these?

Answer 1

Whose magazines are these?

Answer 2

They are both correct. In the second, the demonstrative pronoun is 'these', which adds an emphasis not present in the first form.

Suppose you were in a room and someone said to you "There are two magazines on the table." You could ask

"Whose magazines are they?"

but you wouldn't use "these" in this situation. However, if you walked in to a room and saw two magazines on the table, you could ask "Whose magazines are these?"

Note that "who's magazines" is incorrect. The word here is "whose", not "who's", since "who's" is an abbreviated form of "who is".

You can use forms like "To whom do these magazines belong?", but this is more a literary form and is not often encountered in spoken form, except by those who like to show off their grammatical knowledge.

Answer 3

both of them make sense, i think you would say "they" if you were pointing to them, and you would say "these" if you were holding them.

Answer 4

They are both right, but they refers to magazines that are away from you, say in another room or not present, these refers to magazines that you have close enough to you to demonstrate them e.g. in your hand or on the table next to you where you can point at them.

Answer 5

both depending on whether your holding them it would be these if ur not holdin them those

Answer 6

Whose magazines are these would be correct.

or sound really posh and say - These magazines belong to whom.

Answer 7

Whose magazines are these? is correct

Answer 8

THESE

Answer 9

the second one

Answer 10

mm.....i think
whose magazines are they

Answer 11

Whose magazines are these is correct!