The present subjunctive form of the verb to be is invariably be for all persons, and the past subjunctive form of the verb to be is invariably were. In all other verbs the subjunctive form varies from the indicative only in that, in the present tense, the third person singular ending is lost.
To Mary Wollstone, Burke's argument linked sympathy and power in a dangerous alliance; she insisted that aristocrats do not deserve to be treated in the way that women have traditionally been treated any more than women themselves do.划线部分怎么理解呢?
Recent estimates indicate that the Islamic State has more than 20 to 30 times the fighters it had the last time it was left for dead.
more than 20 to 30 times the fighters是突出倍数才把它放在名词前吗,这里的it had the last time it was left for de是fighter的定语从句吗?the...
Research is under way to see whether sweat can be analysed for molecular biomarkers.
请问这里的to see whether sweat can be analysed for molecular biomarkers.是目的状语吗?可是目的状语不是修饰动词?这里难道修饰is?
Rather,increased"experience"had caused the camputer's datebase to grow,giving it more date to process,which takes time.这里的increased是否用increasing更好? giving的逻辑主语在哪里呢?which指代数据处理这件事,还是更多的数据? 求指点。
...utionary and leader, it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere."老师您昨天回答我说“to dismiss his poetry”是不定式作与宾语有关的结果状语,可为什么不是宾补呢?
They preferred death to surrender to the enemy.Where are you going camping this weekend?为什么有的时候直接用单词本身的名词形式(surrender),而有时候又需要用动名词形式(camping)?? 名词与动词词 究竟有什么不同呢?
... the Triassic period may have blocked sunlight long enough for most plants to die and many animal species to then starve.三叠纪末期,一颗足够大的小行星撞击地球,可能会长时间阻挡阳光,导致大多数植物死亡,许多动物物种饿死。为什么这里for是翻译...
He was so experienced and so business-like, however, that he came very near being rude— failing to remember, as he did, that the individuals he was trying to instruct were volunteer players and not salaried underlings.
He became a
confidante of Churchill, and thus was privy to some of his thinking. 这句可以改成这样吗?He became a
confidante of Churchill, and was thus privy to some of his thinking.