在看barren spring的时候看到这样一句:How he knew that the time had now come when sap should stir in the trees and life begin to move in the soil he could not have told himself. how是怎么用的呢?看翻译应该是一般疑问句，但是没有助动词，从句好像也不成立。很...
"Today the election results have been announced. A new prime minister will take over. Our countrymen have given their verdict, and we respect that," Gandhi said.请问这里的election为什么不用形容词或名词所有格？
新编英语第三版课文里的一句：The part of my brain that switches off when I do anything strenuous signaled shutdown and my feet moved metronomically.这里的signaled shutdown是什么意思，充当什么成分？
It was first believed that he got lost in a storm and had died in the cold weather.
看过老师们的相关解答，and前后两个动词时态可以不一致，只要复合逻辑。
这里got lost 和had died是不是时态错了?应该是先迷失lost，然后死掉die，那不是应该had lost...
The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science
tells us that means real health benefits — fewer heart attacks, strokes and
premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.这里的deliver什么意思? 作什么句子成分?
None would have dreamed of there being such a place.此句中，there being 是否为there be结构？如果是，of 后边是否可以接：there is such a place(省略了先行词that)？如果可以这样接，是否所有宾语从句都可以变为这种动名词形式？
... exhibits, Ashby hopes visitors will learn more than can fit on the labels that accompany the specimens.这句话的more than can 是不是缺少句子成分？不好理解，what can fit on?有这种省略吗？
He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.老师我想问下这里的informing the journalist是否可以看作是fax的定语呢？如果不行又是为什么呢？烦请老师解答，谢谢老师了！
It's often people like Steve Jobs who can draw from a deep reservoir of diverse experiences that often generate breakthrough ideas and insights这里的often修饰的是like？还是修饰的是be？it is often....是否一个固定句型？