“Advertising often serves as an indicator for what society considers to be socially acceptable and desirable at the time,” US marketing expert wrote on the Ad Council’s website.特别是what的用法弄不明白。
As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more
old people to care for.问:此句中 to care for为不定式作old people的后置定语成动宾关系,为什么不用不定式的被动语态:to be cared for?
The behavioral sciences has been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed.既然名词修饰名词作定语,表示分类、类别、用途等,这里的 behavioral 可以改为 behavior 吗?即 behavior sciences 表示行为一类的科学。
Casual workers are usually paid ______ the hour.
A. by B. on C. to D. with
答案是 by。但为什么不能是 on 呢?on the hour 的搭配我也见过。如:
A bus leaves for New York on the hour.
...fore has our nation enjoyed so much prosperity and so much social progress with so little internal crisis.我知道这里是否定副词 never 在句首导致了倒装,那这里 before 是什么词性呢?为什么一定要把 before 也倒装呢?为此我查了柯林斯词典,其中一条说...
...rk词条,有:a : to indicate (a location, such as a location on a map) with a mark or symbol X marks the spot where the suspect was last seen. 根据上面的解释和例句,似乎可以这样:1a. X marks the spot where the suspect was last seen.1b.X marks the spot on the ma...