导读:不定式在句子中可以充当很多成分,如名词,形容词或副词:◆ Noun: I love TO SWIM. To swim 作为love 的宾语.◆ Adjective: The person TO MEET is here. To meet 修饰名词person .◆ Adverb: Sue paused TO EAT lunch. To eat 修饰动词paused .对于不定式的使用,我们也更应该关注不定式所要表达的目的:Right: The contractors demolished the building
不定式在句子中可以充当很多成分,如名词,形容词或副词:
◆ Noun: I love TO SWIM. To swim 作为love 的宾语.
◆ Adjective: The person TO MEET is here. To meet 修饰名词person .
◆ Adverb: Sue paused TO EAT lunch. To eat 修饰动词paused .
对于不定式的使用,我们也更应该关注不定式所要表达的目的:
Right: The contractors demolished the building TO KEEP it from falling down accidentally. demolished 的发起者是contractors ,同时也是不定式to keep的发起者,它描述了demolish 的目的,这里的it 指代building。
我们再看一个例子:
Wrong:The building was demolished TO AVOID falling down accidentally. 例子中building 本身不可能AVOID falling down,对于上面例子可以这样修改:The building was demolished TO KEEP IT from falling down accidentally. 这里的it 指代building ,经过这样修改,building 变成了不定式的宾语。不定式虽然可騨发名词用但还是和名词有许多不同的地方,比如不能作为介词的宾语。
下面我们就来练一道题目:
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolving as a kind of snorkel.
A that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolving
B that has suggested the elephant descended from an aquatic animal, its trunk originally evolving
C suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with its trunk originally evolved
D to suggest that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal and its trunk originally evolved
E to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved
解析:
A. Suggest that… and that…. 第二个that不能省略,且and前面不需要逗号
B. Suggest的用法不符合习语
C. 句子使用过去完成时没有根据,with部分结构错误
D. 宾语从句平行,第二个that不能省略
E. 正确