At first glance, it looks as if there is no element of “present involvement” in this use of the Present Perfect, any more than there isin the Simple Past.看不懂这个句子，尤其是any more than there is in the Simple Past - 总感觉缺少什么，there is 后怎么会没有了？
... death of her in three months. But if he hasn't gone because he's in love, then it's finished.""Oh, I think that's awfully subtle," said the Colonel, putting into the word all the contempt he felt for a quality so alien to the traditions of his calling. "Don't you believe it. He'll come back, and, a...
A whale is not a fish any more than a horse is 我想问下 any more是修饰not的吗，如果是可以写成A whale is not
any more a fish than a horse is.吗?这句话是双边否定，no more才是两边否定，那么是不是no more等于not any more 了，这两种形式有什么区别了?
The concierge
shrugged his shoulders. There was no other hotel of that name in Paris. It
occurred to me that Strickland had concealed his address, after all. In giving
his partner the one I knew he was perhaps playing a trick on him.请教老师：In giving his partner the one I knew he was perhaps ...
...p;what you have done.【for what you have done】是状语吗？His mother offered her apologies to the Jones family【to the Jones family】是状语还是定语呢？如果遇到类视情况，应该如何快速判断呢？
On retirement from the company, an employee, be he a secetary or CEO, presented with a gift pack containing a selection of its products.
句中的虚拟语气的意思应该是无论是秘书还是总裁， 这里是省略了if还是no matter 呢？
Negotiations would be drawn-out, such is the mistrust between the two
sides, but that might be no bad thing, because they could turn into a useful
forum.
...hich her parents’ will is in probate, she
lives first on the charity and then on the forbearance of her neighbors.
Finally she is sent to live with her only relative, a cousin of her mother’s,
who is a schoolteacher in Los Angeles.