托福语法最基本要求-主谓宾结构的分析能力

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1）As her focus changed the love poetry that Edna St.Vincent Millay produced in the 1920's （increasing） gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.

2）Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special （interesting ）to scientists.

3）The capital of the USA ,originally New York City, was moved to Philadelphia （where stayed ）until 1800.

4)The social of children help to prepare （themselves） for their adult roles.

以上是网友提问的几个语法问题,实际上这几道题说简单也不简单.这里面主要涉及
托福考试的最基本要求,对主谓宾结构的分析能力
美国高中生参加的SAT语文考试,其语法部分主要也是考查这个分析能力,而不象国内四六级英语考试出现那么繁杂的语法考点.

对于第1题,第3题及第4题,如果大家能分析出主谓宾来(记住也包括各种从句中的主谓宾,如第3题的定语从句),那么问题自然迎刃而解.

4)The social of children help to prepare themselves for their adult roles.
主语是The social,而不是children.如此就可以看出themselves究竟指代谁.

3）The capital of the USA ,originally New York City, was moved to Philadelphia where stayed until 1800.
Philadelphia是定语从句where stayed中的成分,那么这个定从依据句意是应该如何构成的>>CAPITAL STAYED PHI. UNTIL 1800.

1）As her focus changed the love poetry that Edna St.Vincent Millay produced in the 1920's increasing gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.
give way to 让路,让步
As her focus changed, the love poetry (that...1920's定从) give way to poetry (dealing...分词修饰结构).
结构明确后,就可以想一下这个INCREASING 作什么成分.

至于第2题,由于我们阅读量太少,我们对一些语法现象不熟悉,有时总觉得难以理解.
对于BE OF 这种结构,其实被用到很多,以下是几例:

B) Recognizing that electronic commerce is of growing strategic importance to industry and the banking community, Treasury strongly supports the goals of the government-wide electronic commerce for acquisition initiative to...

C) The basic disclosure document used in our market to sell securities in public offerings is of course the prospectus, which contains information about the issuer, including its business, its management and financial condition, which information enables market participants to make informed judgements about a company and its prospects.

D) Once income passes this threshold, the graduate becomes liable to pay the entire servicing amount, which can be of the order of six per cent of gross annual income.

E) '(so) that a degree from University X is considered to be of an equal standard to that from University Y.'

又如BETTER OFF
on graduates with better off family backgrounds.
我们觉得with better family backgrounds就很通顺了,为什么要加OFF?
From a pocketbook perspective, workers are absolutely better off joining a union.

说了一大堆,无非希望大家重视最基本的句子分析能力.然后才有希望在托福语法考试及阅读考试中得高分.也欢迎大家来信,共同讨论.来信请 ROAD2TOEFL@HOTMAIL.COM AND UWONCACN@SOHU.COM