Kamen was named company chairman, succeeding Robert Schwartz, who is retiring after 44 years. 这个句子有两点不懂:1. 现在分词短语 succeeding Robert Schwartz 是什么成分?2. after 44 years 为什么用介词 after,而不用 in?
请问在The prices of the flats in the downtown are several times as high as in the countryside.中的in the downtown为什么不对呢?答案说只能用downtown,即作为副词来用。但downtown不是也有名词词性吗?为什么不能用in the downtown作flats的后置定语呢?还...
And in circles devoted to literary criticism, among the professors of
literature, the editors and authors of fiction, there was sometimes a kind of
horrible exclusivity surrounding discussions of reading. There was good
reading, and there was bad reading. There was the worthy, and the trivial. This
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...ers growing well along it.3.The child trembled,with hands red with cold.(1)和(2)中,unfulfilled和growing well 这些能看作后置定语吗?但看着和分词的独立主格用法也很像?(3)句第二个with指的是child冷,还是hands冷啊?
有一个说法是,静态动词不能和目的状语搭配,我记得剑桥语法上确实有,但是这次没找到,却找到了两个似乎是静态动词和目的状语搭配的例子(p. 729-730):These are the kinds of student that this school exists to cater for.How many credit point...
...问题二: He seems to write a letter.(动态不定式表示事件,不能和谓语动词seem为同一时间)。为什么判断是write a letter是跟seems是同时,不能是write a letter在seems之后发生?It seems to rain this afternoon.而这句话,to rain this afternoon就判断是seems...
A: Oh, I'm sorry. I just realized that I forgot to bring the camera you lent me. I left it back in my dorm.B: That's all right. I won't need it until tonight. As long as I've got it back by then.请问这里的 left it back 为何加back呢?直接写 I left it in my dorm不就好了么,此处加...