问题 the purpose of...作主语时后面的表语不能用动名词吗

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.—Pablo Picasso艺术的目的是要洗去日常生活给我们的灵魂蒙上的尘土。——毕加索这是2020版高中英语北师大版必修第三册第7单元(p7)的句子。记得有人说过，the purpose of...作主语...

问题 a collection of online journal titles的理解

...d big deal, where institutional subscribers pay for access to a collection of online journal titles through site-licensing agreements. 【参考译文】一种是所谓的大批量模式，即机构订阅用户通过网站许可协议方式购买在线期刊的阅读权限。【我的疑问】(...

问题 piece work与a piece of work的区别

work(工作)是不可数名词，表示“一件工作”应该是 a piece of work，但下面一句用的是 piece work，为什么没有介词 of 呢？The women were being paid £18 a week on piece work, the men £25.

问题 learn of sth through/by/from/on辨析

I learnt of the vacancy through a newspaper advertisement.1. learn在解释"获知"的意思时，同时有及物和不及物2种词性，是不是意味着不写of也可以？2. 这个介词through能否用by/from/on？

问题 In both of which 是做什么成分

...and the second house are well-suited to their everyday situations, in both of which the kitchen is bright and spacious.这个句子中依旧是 both 是先行项而 which 是关系代词吗？如果是，这是一个连续性关系分句吗？in both of which 是做什么成分，该如何分析？

问题 kinds of前面可不用任何修饰语吗？

可以直接说We have kinds of choices for you to choose from吗？

问题 of可以做表语，那么它是小品词吗

比如这句话：You do not know what plant the seed is of.

问题 为什么不说“Beijing of China”

我们知道，“我来自中国北京”应表述为：I come from Beijing, China. 也就是说，中国北京为Beijing, China而非Beijing of China，这一用法的语法依据是什么？

话题 at the age of

话题 because of the reason

话题 in the face of

话题 a great quantity of

话题 in the possession of

话题 a page of photos

话题 a pair of hands