He came with his friends and his mother—the former ______ fashionably dressed.
A. was B. were
请问是该用单数还是用复数？从形式上看应该是单数，但由于这个 the former 是指代 his friends 的，应该...
...？这里没有用，所以有点疑惑。Its built-in means of combining and recombining (nesting) of its various levels has suggested to many leading linguists that language is theoretically infinite though not practically so in every usage.
在夸克语法(A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Grammar) 5.17 All and whole 小节中，作者写道：(ii) All the or the whole is used with other count nouns that are understood to be divisible:all the/the whole family/way/story我对这句话的理解是：all the 或 the whole 可以修...
...-about 4,500 years ago.We know who had it built,that was the Pharaoh Khufu,and we know who oversaw its construction: the Pharaoh's brother. 想问下had it built这里可以had built it吗？这里的built是不是过去分词和have+宾语+done的形式，还是过去式做被动语态？有点...
•Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. •这里的两个【was】为何是承前省略，与前面inns主语也不同呀谢谢我没有花呀 是刚刚注册的
...erving that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up
and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
interfere.两位小姐立刻请他来溜达，可是他谢绝了，说是她们俩所以要在屋子里踱来踱去，据他的想象，无非有...
...before好些呢？
2. We were great friends, but one day we quarrelled
and I never saw或had never seen him again.可是这句话为什么可以用过去完成时had never seen him
again，这并不是发生在we quarrelled之前呀？
...th was
positively resolved——nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on
the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long.然而Elizabeth下定决心反对再继续待下去——她也不期望他们再邀请她们住下去；相反地，她也很害怕，...
...l meaning of emotional (情感的) intelligence. Many people now misunderstand
emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person’s makeup that
cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence,
mental stability, optimism and “people skills.” Research h...
A spillage from an armoured van sparked a mad scramble - and police
arrests - on a US
motorway on Friday morning.Videos on social media show money raining down as people scramble to
pick up dollars strewn across the road.It happened on the Interstate 5 in California's
San Diego
county.上面这段...
...h in a wooden tub in the kitchen.Mothers
had to boil the water on the fire and carry it over to fill the tub. No wonder children could not jump into a
tub as they do today.老师：您好！最后一句理解上有疑惑：1）我的理解：难怪当初的孩子们不能像今天的孩子们一样...
...三，36课，a chance in a million 里有一句话： His unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. 他所在的部队被击溃，他所有的档案材料被毁于战火。 请教关于lost 这个词，应该怎么理解？如果是动词 lose 的过去分词，那么这里就用...
...es（主语）don't capture（谓语）everything（宾语）that's unique and
wonderful about ourselves（定语从句）.例2：We（主语）need（谓语）to understand
that we are all beautiful in our own way（宾语）, just like the
sky is beautiful in its own way（方式状语从句）....
...比如何理解？ 相关语境如下：HYPATIA. Oh, I don't mind your saying that about Bentley. It's true. He is a little squit of a thing. I wish he wasn't. But who else is there? Think of all the other chances I've had! Not one of them has as much bra...
... happy with the school hours in Britain because school starts around 9 a.m.and ends about 3.30 p.m.This means I could get up an hour later than usual as schools in China begin before 8 a.m.▲句中的红色划线部分第一处 school 用的是单数，但第二处的 schools 却用的是复数。...