... encouraging the provision of all
these activities in schools. 句子中的从句有there is space for playing
fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts,和If there is a
role for government,主句包括make sure吗?
在网上查到:当陈述部分含有 may 时:反意疑问句根据情况可用mayn’t, mightn’t, won’t等:I may leave now, mayn’t I? 我可以走了,行吗?He may be here next week, mightn’t [won’t] he? 他下星期可能来这里,是吗?那到底什么情况用呢?区别呢...
..., before I had finished speaking.没等我说完他就问道。不太理解的地方在于,一是before后面的内容应该是后发生的,为什么这里before后面用的是过去完成时而不是一般过去时?二是单看‘before I had finished speaking’的意思为“我说完了”...
...典为例:1.Merriam-Webster’s
Dictionary of English Usage (1994) P760: when the two things compared are
expressed in gerunds (sometimes with the second -ing form deleted) we find both
to and rather than: He preferred living like a Grecian, to dying
like a Roman. — J. W.
Croker, 20 July 1815, i...