...al class, with a virtual army of lower-ranking tabulators performing the monotonous job of tallying commodities. We can only speculate as to how high or low the inventors of true numerals were in the scribal hierarchy, but it stands to reason that this laborsaving innovation would have been the ...
not only …but also连接两个谓语时为何第一个谓语位于前面呢？例如：Wearing my own shoes proves not only convenient but also ensures a point that the feelings of others can be ignored.
And yet it was not quite the last. I found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seeking for the sleep which would not come. Far away a chiming clock struck out the quarters of the hours, but otherwise a deathly silence lay upon the old house. And then suddenly, in...
...ly. 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，所以如何理解这里的a baby
crying - 语法分析？
...onfinite and verbless adverbial clauses that have an overt subject but are not introduced by a subordinator and are not the complement of a prepositionare ABSOLUTE clauses, so termed because they are not explicitly bound to the matrix clause syntactically. Absolute clauses may be -ing, -ed, or verbl...
...You may come out now.
你现在可以出来了。You may read any of
the books. 你可以看这些书中的任何一本。You may go now if you
want to. 你要是想走的话，现在就可以走。体会下面的对话：—May
[might] I use your phone? 我可以用一下你的电话吗?—(正)Yes...
...高阶英汉双解词典》break 词条的一个例句：This decision to not call their daughter Jane was a break with family tradition. 他们决定不给女儿起名叫简，这违背了家族传统。我认为：句中 to not 应为 not to ，请专家指教，谢谢！
...r ( what 为缩合连接代词） you are not who I thought you were (who为缩合连接代词） 2. what she did isnot yet known ( 关联词是疑问代词what) The problem is who we can get to replace her...
之前看过您的一篇文章，是讨论may (not) have done和might (not) have done对过去推测的用法的区别，may (not) have done是站在现在的立场对过去的推测，而might (not) have done既可以是站在现在的立场对过去的推测，也可以是站在过去的立场对...
...一则习题要求用评注性状语改写下面的句子： 1. Itisnot unreasonable that he should protest strongly against it. 答案： Not unreasonably, he protested strongly against it. （protest不一定就发生了。）2. Itis fortunate that Roberts should have returned the ch...
Choose a warm, dry day to cut them off the plants, being careful not to bruise them. 请问各位，句子中的现在分词短语 being careful not to bruise them 是什么句子成分？我估计应该是状语，但我不知道是什么状语。
Itisnot Tom but some other boy.Jane and some other girls went shopping.All my other patients are fine.Our other branch is just a few doors down the road.我发现other前边加限定词例如some和物主代词后边加的名词可以根据情况选择单数复数，是不是只有some与物主代...
... 12 and over. They've got one daughter, Isabel, aged 3. Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine. 我的疑问是：这样用的 aged 可以用作表语吗？比如：His girlfriend isaged 18 and very rich.另外，它可以用作状语吗？比如：He got married aged 25.