向尊敬的曹老师请教三个句子!!i If the aim is to create disunity, [as it is,] we should reject his proposal.ii She suggested he hadn’t been honest with her, [as indeed he hadn’t].iii The deadlock is a disappointment coming [as it does]after such a promising start.请教曹老师...
背景:Don’t use literally when you literally mean figurativelyThis is one of my biggest pet peeves in the world because it is so ridiculous. Why do people say “literally” when they mean its exact opposite, “figuratively”? Here are some examples I’ve encou...
...mon's home in Waterfield, Tom got quickly to work on the little job he
had cometodo for his old friend. (TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE)但这种用法十分罕见。除了arrive,其它动词尚未见到如此使用,不宜“以此类推”。所以不可以说*Finished
the work, I ...
What else could they do? In order to cure her father, the daughter went
about and managed to scrape together 500 yuan which she handed to the man just
before her father went to live.此句中的 handed to the man 这一动作,看起来是在went to live之前,为什么不用过去完成时态?
Students are being dared to draw a picture,write an article,take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about.老师好,请问如何理解加粗部分的用法?为何不用are daring to ?是否有be dared todo 的用法?此时dared是否为情态动词?