老师们好，过去分词短语的被动语态可以省略宾语么？Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel.是一个单独的句子，句首大写，这个被动过去分词短语，可以理解为...an old master paint them as the face of an angel吗？
①We are looking forward to the exper's the expert coming to give us a leture. ②her coming to help encourage all of us. 在①中的第二个to是不定式宾语补足语？
在②中的to 是逻辑主语的介词 ，help为名词 然后 her coming to help 做主语？
谢谢！
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？
There’s a mismatch between how many goods people want to buy, how many products and services producers can offer, and the price of the goods and services sold, which prompts an economic decline.
这句话中的how many是引导宾语从句做定语吗？people want to buy为什么不可以理解...
原句是It turned from God and the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and instead favoured a more humanistic approach to being. 这里的to being十分奇怪？！百思不得其解~
...子：Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way," so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential.翻译：用前科罗拉多州州长xxx的话来说，年老体弱者“有责任死去...
As if in keeping with the sadness of departure, the weather had turned gloomyy1) in在上句何意，可否去掉，变成As if keeping with...？2) as if 后接do/doing/done形式都可以吗？3) 为什么主句使用了过去完成时had turned, 而不是一般过去时turned？我没想通，我...
Therefore
to increase the yield of the targeted products, many
factors are taken into consideration.这个句子是对的吧？这里的to increase的逻辑主语是省略了吗？因为肯定不是many factors。
... desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.这是托福TPO4听力中的一段话，其中on the desert floor these huge rocks感觉不通顺，没有谓语或者非谓语，these huge rocks是当同位...
So
the results of China’s seventh census, conducted last year and released on May
11th, were big news.本句中，conducted修饰China’s seventh census，而released修饰the results，尽管通过逻辑判断不会出现歧义，但我觉得不够优化。各位老师怎么看？
1) I wonder if parents should always tell the truth no matter the consequences.matter本身为名词，no matter后面直接接名词，no matter词性是什么？用法是什么？2) What if later in life they come to know a metaphorical door, like an opportunity of some sort...这里的of some ...
They know everything that is happening on the place. They are aslikely
to get as depressed, miserable or suicidal as the next man.
请问这里出现三个as，怎么解释，这三个as之间关系如何，各自做什么成分呢？