She picked up a book. The book was lying on the table. 老师，您好！这个句子的时态有问题吗？后面一句为什么不用过去进行时呢？应该这样用才对吧：She picked up a book. The book had been lying on the table.
Evidence of Iran's malign activity was recently made available when the State Department published its annual report on global terrorism.近日，伊朗从事邪恶活动的证据公之于众，美国...
...问he begrudged poor Willikins the very bed he slept in so that Willikins was forced to get such rest as he could on a pile of straw in the stable next to the horses 问题一，这里的very是表示强调，可是床都没买为啥也能强调问题二，这里的such是不是算一个代词...
He adds humbly that perhaps he was“superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.”这个句子中，引号中的“superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them caref...
...该用哪一个，或者说哪个好，有什么区别？2.It is a boy who was listening to music.该如何将V-ing前置改为倒装句?3. Listening to music is a way to relax.又该如何把V-ing后置?两种句式转换时是否一定要有that/who等来引导从句
There was a club chair in our house, with curled arms and a square
ottoman; it sat in one corner of the living room, with a barrel table next to
it. In my mind I am always sprawled on it, reading with my skinny legs slung
over one of its arms.In my mind I am always sprawled on it, reading with my sk...
The actual figure was made of copper supported by a metal framework
which had been especially constructed by Eiffel.请问老师，为啥用不定冠词a metal framework，我觉得应该用定冠词the metal framework，因为这个名词被定语从句修饰了。
And the man was shocked to wake up and find the tide had come in and completely surrounded him, cutting him off from the shore.请问老师to wake up是作什么成分呢？cutting him是作结果状语吗？
看到一篇讲寿司文章中一段话，In 18th century, sushi was three to four times bigger than what we see today，and served as food street in Japan. As it moved indoors，restaurants wanted to distinguish their sushi as more refined.这段话最后短语as more refined表达什么含义，...
...sma science team, said in an
email that at the time of the flyby, the team was "knocked over by the
weirdness of a magnetic field" so tilted from the planet's spin axis and "did not think about much
else." 这句话的from the planet这个from是与的意思吗？与地球的自转轴？
...，尤其是黑体字：She loved to crawkalong its banks upon the rocks or upon the muddy flats-and watch for the lifting of the huge four-square nets-from the moving yellow flood,andiseeiout of that flood come perhaps again and again an empty net, but sometimes great flashing, twisting silvenbodie...
For the road was cut many years ago—by Fanny Burney, by Aphra Behn, by Harriet Martineau, by Jane Austen, by George Eliot—many famous women, and many more unknown and forgotten, have been before me, making the path smooth, and regulating my steps. 请问这句的主语、谓语、宾语（...
His story was near enough the truth for people to believe it.请问句中的 near enough the truth 如何理解？我的疑问是：near 受到了 enough 的修饰，说明它是形容词，而不是介词；但它后面又接了名词 the truth，这又使得它像是一个介词。这是怎么回...