Who is a pronoun with several uses.
Who is a pronoun that refers to individuals and that, according to the context, can be equivalent to "which" , "the one" , "the one" , etc. This pronoun, which can be relative , indefinite or interrogative (in the latter case it has an accent on the "e" ), does not change depending on the gender , although it is modified by the number .
The pronoun who can be used to name “no one who” or “that one” : “There is no one who sings like her / There is no one who sings like her,” “He who does business with the mafia knows the possible consequences of his actions.” acts / Anyone who does business with the mafia knows the possible consequences of their actions .
The term who in questions
In the context of a question , the pronoun usually inquires about a person who has performed a certain action: “Who ate the last piece of cake?” , “I wonder who wrote this letter” , “Excuse me, who is in charge of organizing the event? “I would like to make a complaint.”
It is important to note that the word who must be written with an accent in the E when it is used to formulate an indirect question; that is, one that is included in a sentence of another type and that does not have question marks. In the following examples you can see this, in contrast to the cases in which the accent is not spelled (it is not written): “I don't know who will be the winner of the match, but both tennis players deserve the title” , “I would never insult the president, whom I deeply admire” , “The man from whom I have obtained such praise is very important at the local level” .
When the term who is used in a question, it must have an accent.
The diacritical accent
The fact that the word who is only sometimes written with an accent is because it can express different meanings. In these cases we speak of diacritical accent , a resource created to easily distinguish the meaning of certain terms in the middle of a context. On some occasions, the terms that are differentiated through the diacritical accent do not have the same etymology , as is the case with mi and mí , short for mine and derived from the Latin mihi , respectively.
In the case of interrogatives and exclamatives , such as who , the diacritical accent must be used to distinguish them from conjunctions or relative pronouns that are written the same. In this way, when we see one of these words with an orthographic accent, we know that they indicate the beginning of a question or an exclamation, either directly (when it is enclosed between the relevant signs) or indirectly (it is found within a sentence of another type).
The diacritical accent should also be applied to interrogatives and exclamatives in their plural form, as can be seen in the following examples: "Who are those people who are in our garden?" , "I don't know who they were, but they all spoke highly of you." The absence of the accent quickly tells us that it is not in a question: "He was with his two children, who were very kind and professional."
The word who in art
“Who” , on the other hand, is the title of a musical song sung by Ricardo Arjona and released in 2007 . The song was chosen as the first release cut from the album “Who Said Yesterday” .
Who or who, on the other hand, are words that are part of countless titles of artistic works, such as the television program “Who wants to be a millionaire?” or the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” .
In 2011 , finally, a television series titled "Los Who" premiered in Spain , starring Javier Cámara , María Pujalte , Julián López , Cristina Alcázar , Fernando Gil and Kiti Manver , among others, all well-known actors in their country. The plot revolved around the daily life of the first married couple to divorce in Spain , and this takes us back to the beginning of the 1980s . Despite having a great cast and a hilarious script, the series lasted only one season of thirteen episodes.