Pre-reading Questions 1. What does the\Green revolution refer to? 2. Why did various writers predict that there would be widespread famine? 3. Name some countries with serious food shortages 4. What is \miracle rice?

Questions: on the text 1:Whydoestheauthor.comparea language with a living, organism? 2.Which: language family does English belong to? 3. What: is., it\:: causes: :. the languages. within a: single language family. to become different from one another? Does this, happen to one particular. language:: in.different periods of time. too

(一)名词的固定搭配 介词+名词形式 第一组 by accident偶然 on account of因为,由于 in addition另外 in addition to除之外(包括 in the air在流行中,在传播中 onthe/an)average平均,一般来说 on the basis of根据,在的基础上 at(the)best充其量,至多

Introduction Course: English Grammar Lecturer: Rongcheng Pan Object: English Major05-5&6 Textbook: English Grammar Course (Fourth Edition) by Zhang Zhenbang, Shanghai Foreign

定义 直接引语:直接引用别人的原话,并在原话前后加引 号例 : He said:\ It is too late.\ 间接引语:用自己的话转述别人的话,多数以宾语从 句的形式构成。 He said it was too late

1独立主格 (一):独立主格结构的构成: 名词(代词)+现在分词、过去分词 名词(代词)+形容词; 名词(代词)+副词; 名词(代词)+不定式; 名词(代词)+介词短语构成

A coordinate construction is a sequence of semantically-related grammatical units that are similar in form, equal in rank of structure, identical in function and are connected by coordinators

1.Itis+被强调部分+that 该句型是强调句型。将被强调的部分放在前面,其它 部分置于that之后。被强调部分可以是主语,宾语,表 语或状语。强调的主语如果是人,that可以由who换用 如果把这种句型结构划掉后,应该是一个完整无缺的 句子。这也是判断强调句型与其它从句的方法

Aims: 1. Structural properties of existential sentences 2. non-finite existential clauses Key words: existential sentence存在句, introductory(there)引导词

Lecture 15: Comparison and Comparative Construction 8.as+形容词或副词原级+as （1)在否定句或疑问句中可用so.as He cannot run so/as fast as you. （2)当as...as中间有名词时采用以下格式 as+形容词+aan+单数名词+as