标准：The price was higher than he wished to pay. (来自剑桥语法)方言：The price was higher than the price that he wished
to pay. (来自剑桥语法)比较：The tree is taller than the one I planted last year.(我自己造的)请问上面我自己造的句子算是标准用法还算是...
有时见到accept 后接that从句作宾语，有时见到accept 后接the fact that作宾语（the fact是宾语，that从句是同位语从句）。如：
I cannot accept that he is to blame. 我认为不能责怪他。
She wouldn’t accept the fact that she had lost. 她不...
辅导班一道题：
用 must / have to / had to / mustn't / needn't 填空：
We didn't have any food yesterday, so we _______ go shopping.
老师给的答案是 have to。我认为 so we _______ go shopping 未给出时间，应该一般现在时 have to（现在去买）、...
I would prefer that you did not come this afternoon. 我倒希望你不要今天下午来。 I’d prefer it if the bed were a little too long. 我倒希望这床稍大长一点。 这两句都是虚拟语气吧，但从句型上看，一个用的是 that 从句，一个用的是 if 从句，但用 ...
1.—What was the party like?
—Wonderful. It's years ______ I enjoyed myself so much.
A. when B. since
选对了B，但是不明白这个句子。句子怎么翻译？这是什么从句？
2. It is because he is kind and modest...
在下面的句子中，told 后面跟了三个宾语从句，对不对？I asked her why and she told me that they were so quiet, that she was the only person talking in class and it felt like the children were punishing her by making her talk to the walls!第一个宾语从句是：that they were ...
Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanit...
《COBULD英汉双解詞典》aside 词条下的一个例句：In an aside he said to his servant，‘See that man gets something to eat.’ 他停下正在谈的话题，对一边的仆人说道，“去弄点东西给那个人吃。”对于句中的 see, 我查了几部字典，也没有搞明...
e.g. A wide range of colours and patterns are available.《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》e.g. A broad range of issues was discussed.e.g. If a group or range of things is diverse, it is made up of a wide of variety of things.《Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English》e.g...
Save the Children calls breastfeeding one of the best ways to prevent malnutrition.为什么不是这样写呢？ Save the Children calls breastfeeding is one of the best ways to prevent malnutritionis 是省略了？call 引导的是从句吗？
Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say. “My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side...
He is the man visiting us yesterday.He is the man who visited us yesterday.这两句是否都正确呢？我知道现在分词做定语是表示“主动”、“同时”。那这个地方的用法是否有问题呢？Do you know the people coming to the party tomorrow?这个句子我判断应该...
及到名词和对应词根的动名词（例如kill/killing；swim/swimming；cover/covering等等），究竟该如何辨析二者含义差别呢？ 实际阅读中，经常遇到这种类似的结构，例如The smell of sth 和 the smelling of sth究竟有何区别？又或者如The cover o...
省去了宾语herself，并且herself是to be given more work to do 的逻辑主语。这句补完整是She asked herself to be given more work to do.我的疑问：这句是不是主动态：She asked to give herself more work to do.改成被动态就是She asked （herself ）to be given more wor...