问题 the former 用作主语时谓语动词用单数还是复数

He came with his friends and his mother—the former ______ fashionably dressed. A. was           B. were 请问是该用单数还是用复数？从形式上看应该是单数，但由于这个 the former 是指代 his friends 的，应该...

问题 all和whole修饰复数可数名词的问题

在夸克语法(A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Grammar) 5.17 All and whole 小节中，作者写道：(ii) All the or the whole is used with other count nouns that are understood to be divisible:all the/the whole family/way/story我对这句话的理解是：all the 或 the whole 可以修...

问题 不规则的承前省略，新概念四第三课~烦请大神作答

•Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. •这里的两个【was】为何是承前省略，与前面inns主语也不同呀谢谢我没有花呀 是刚刚注册的

问题 hold表示抓住某个东西时，后面为什么要加介词to呢？

He held on to the back of a chair (他抓住椅背)(新牛津词典例句)Hold tight to the railing, or you'll slip and fall.(章振邦新编高级英语语法384页)我想不通，为什么以上2个例句，hold后面要用介词， 为什么不是直接抓住某个东西，加了介词to为何？

问题 关于过去完成时的疑问

...before好些呢？ 2. We were great friends, but one day we quarrelled and I never saw或had never seen him again.可是这句话为什么可以用过去完成时had never seen him again，这并不是发生在we quarrelled之前呀？

问题 popularization 的理解与翻译

...l meaning of emotional (情感的) intelligence. Many people now misunderstand emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person’s makeup that cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence, mental stability, optimism and “people skills.” Research h...

问题 关于 lost 用法与理解（新概念三第36课）

...三，36课，a chance in a million 里有一句话： His unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed.  他所在的部队被击溃，他所有的档案材料被毁于战火。 请教关于lost 这个词，应该怎么理解？如果是动词 lose 的过去分词，那么这里就用...

问题 to me/for me 辨析(it is important to me to be...)

It was important to me to be financially independent of my parents. 在经济上不依赖父母，这对我很重要。以上是牛津词典例句。为什么是to me, 而不是for me呢？ 二者使用上，含以上究竟有何区别？

问题 it was announced that only when还需要部分倒装吗

It was announced that only when the fire was under control ______to return to their homes.A. the residents would be permitted B. had the residents been permitted  C. would the residents be permitted D. the residents had been permitted我记得only+状语置于句首会引起部分倒装，但这道...

问题 get的理解问题

...ol isn't much more than the amount of energy that gets put into making it,so it's not really worth it. Tina?这里的that gets put into making it应该是一个定语从句，that指the amount of energy, it指代enthanol, 请问get这里有种被动的意义，但是我在字典上没有找...

文章 浅谈“嵌入式定语从句”

...It is often possible to combine relative clauses with indirect statements and similar structures, e.g. I know/said/feel/hope/wish (that) ..., especially in an informal style. Expressions like I know, I said, etc come after the position of the relative pronoun.We're going to meet somebody (who/that) ...

问题 It seemed as if the world was at an end是虚拟语气吗

At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! 新人教版课本必修一 Unit 4 Reading 部分的这个句子。应该是用虚拟语气吧？

问题 it is +adj+for you to do sth句型中的for you是什么成分

请问：it is +adj+for you to do sth 句型中的 for you 是什么成分？是作状语表示“对……而言”的意思吗？谢谢！

问题 有 it is important to sb to do sth 这种用法吗

问题 Few people thought it was just a death by drowning