比如这句话But a botched response to the virus would lay bare tensions inherent in the party’s hybrid claims to legitimacy.如果lay是谓语动词，那么bare作什么句子成分呢？是lay的状语吗？
在介词宾语从句里，连接副词能不能引导？比如这句话：Shanghai did not originate from where the tall buildings are.这句介词宾从是连接代词who引导的，正确吗？we should appeal to who are living in those wealthy countries to donate money to the poor people.
This novel concerns peasant life after the reform.请问上面的句子concerns用主动形态正确吗？ 很困惑，为什么concern有时候用主动有时候用被动呢，究竟是什么原因？比如：She needn't concern herself with so much unimportant details (主动) ...
Attorney Goodman's charge was answered in prefatory remarks again by Congressman Henry Hide of Illinois, a member of the House, in effect acting for the prosecution.
The doctor,not wishing to makje her more nervous,didn't fully explain the seriousness of her condition.请问两个逗号之间的这段分词，它属于什么成分，为什么用逗号完全分隔开？ 可以看作非限制定语么？（不知分词可以作非限制定语吗？）
a metallic surface = a surface like that of metal显然，这里的that=the surface, 对吗？可是为什么不能用one代替a surface，即a surface like one of metal 呢？或者我的疑问是为什么这里要用that=the surface特指呢？
Hosfstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise”1、请问各位老师hostility后面的to intellect是后置定...
Their antagonism，their disappointments，their mutual
boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement.有个问题:whatever is left是从句么，是的话该怎么理解，不应该left做whatever的后置定语才说的通吗？还有如果前边是宾语从句，那of the initial
excite...
It
is terrible. The cat miaowed a lot at night recently. It sounds like a baby
crying.这句话，我有2个疑问：1)
The cat has been miaowing at lot at night recently - 改成这样才更合理？2)
It sounds like a baby crying. - 介词like后面应该是一个名词性质的词组，所以如...
Holding her new yellow bathrobe around her with both arms, She walked up to him.They left the apartment ,pulling the spring lock shut behind them.这两句中的around her和behind them