They made a protest to the authorities that was embarrassing.（夸克，语法大全，18.42）
作者说这句话等于they made a protest to the authorities in a way that was embarrassing.那么原句里边that指代的是整个主句部分？可以这样用吗？
1. have a...knowledge of sth 是固定搭配吗？在类似这样的用法和搭配中是不是必须要用不定冠词？
He has a good knowledge of mathematics. 他的数学(知识)很好。
He has a wide knowledge of history. 他有广泛的历史知识。
It is necessary to have a good ...
有这样一道选择题：
We all hope that in the future there will be_________ more pandas than now.
A.much B. a lot C. lot D. a lot of
参考答案是 B，但是我认为 A 也是正确的，因为本题中的...
下面是2014高考英语浙江卷的第2题： The paper is due next month, and I am working seven days ________ week, often long into ________ night. A. a; the B. the; 不填 C. a; a D. 不填；the 答案为A。我对句中long into the night不太理解，...
Perhaps the best solution to our growing energy challenges comes in a bulletin from the Union of Concerned Scientists: "Our society's future success cannot hinge on one single solution. The answer instead must come from a family of diverse energy technologies that sharea unified purpose -t...
...面一段摘自2022年高考英语全国乙卷：In
1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N. Y.—Dorothy
Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood—traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains
to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The
girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expe...
Close beside the path they were following a bird suddenly chirped from the branch of a tree.suddenly chirped from the branch of a tree 是不是做定语修饰 bird，如果是的话，过去分词chirped不是表被动的么，被动语义感觉不对。谢谢老师回答！
Shoppers make an appointment online before arriving at a Guideshop, where they receive one-on-one ________ from a fitting guide. A. attention B.instruction 答案是A ，这个为什么不选择 B，一对一的指导不是更加合理吗？
I understand success to refer to one's ability to achieve the predominant part of his goals in his lifetime, which in turn leads to a correlation between success and income since the accomplishment of such a natural goal as to provide a good future for your loved ones demands the means这句的...
在《牛津词典》中查找系动词turn接名词作表语的例句时看到这样一个句子：He's a clergyman turned politician, ie He was formerly a clergyman but is now a politician. 他以前是个教士, 现在成了政治家了。请问，句中的turned是什么成分？
我在一篇文章中看到这句话：as befits the gravity of the issue at hand, a complicated multi-knockout round system was employed.但是我不知道为什么befit前面加as的原因，我又查了牛津字典，发现字典上只给出了例句，并没有解释原因：it was a lavish rece...
Two weeks ago, voters in Taiwan, the island democracy that Mr. Xi has made clear should join a greater China, resoundingly re-elected a president despised by Beijing. --此句子来自纽约时报，不代表我个人政治立场。that从句我理解为是修饰democracy的定语从句，但...
Born to a family of professional musicians, she sings as beautifully as
a nightgale.请问老师：1）句首为什么用born to而不是born in?2) Born to a family of professional musicians这部分称作什么？
Occasion carries the basic denotation characteristic of its leading senses—a definite moment or juncture，but it applies only to a moment that provides an opportunity or that calls for or prompts action of a definite kind or nature.