John was waiting forthere to be complete silence.No one had told him about there being a lecture the following day.不都应该看there前面是什么来判断后面的搭配吗，那这两句话前面都是介词，为什么一个是不定式一个是动名词形式呢？
...我不是很理解,此时为什么用的是陈述语气和祈使语气If the train should be late ,what will you do? if we should fail this , we are ruined.if you should meet Henry, tell him I want to see him.
看一篇介绍vr技术的文章有一句话the research showed that students felt comfortable
taking risk when playing game。翻译意思是研究表明学生们在玩游戏时会乐于冒险。我认为在这句话里作表语的形容词comfortable和taking risk之间缺少了介词，可以是t...
...到的句子，句子的时态有点无法理解：It did not come up at the trial on Tuesday, but it has been reported previously that Kayla Mueller was handed over to Baghdadi, who allegedly raped her repeatedly before killing her.句中加粗的两处，为什么不用过去完成时，明明这...
在一篇英语习作中看到：The hotel provides hot and cold water all day.我对其中的hot and cold water 有疑问：它要表达的意思应该是“冷水”和“热水”，即既供应“冷水”也供应“热水”，但hot and cold water（冷热水）给人的感觉是一种水—...
Research confirms that the findings concerning senior citizens can be applied to restless children. They are more easy-going when there are animals around, with whose company they tend to calm down more easily.为什么红色部分的 whose 不能用 their，为什么用 their 要在前面加个 and...
前面有网友提了一个问题, 是关于 thank 用法的:http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-34705.html我觉得其中大多数问题都涉及祈使句中thank后面能不能接第三人称的问题。比如：Thank him for telling me the news.Thank Mr Wang for helping me.这样的句子对吗？
... her, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? “琼珊，亲爱的，”苏艾弯着身子 对她说，“你能不能答应我，在我画完之前，别睁开眼睛，别瞧窗外？请问老师： be done doing 是什么...
...你中有我我中有你，使人傻傻分不清楚，如He
lives on/off the Park Avenue.还有on和away都可以表示“继续下去”；最后即使把某个介词所有释义都搞明白了，在阅读中也经常出现无法解释的短语，如call
on sb/call on sb to do sth拜访某人/号...
Though the ____dramazing is wonderful,I guess most audiences will be
tired as it is too longA. four-hour B. four hoursC. four-hours D. four-hour's为什么选A不选D?
...常是在前后用逗号隔开，但下面这个句子用的是破折号：The tall building over there—which cost 300 million yuan to build—has been empty for a long time. 那边的那栋高楼，就是花费了3亿元的那一栋，已经空置很长时间了。请问老师：非限制性定...