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UNIT 1
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Using language
1. Students could learn some words and phrases.
2. Students could get the main usage of this grammar---Subject clauses.
3. Students could write some a passage by using this grammar---Subject clauses.
Learning Aims:
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主语从句
Subject clauses
Before learning, please try to make a prediction of this passage.
It is about appearance.
Brainstorming:Before reading this passage, what ideas come to your mind?
1. personality
2. appearance
3. others...
Try to write your opinions
in your notebook!
How much
do you know about yourself?
Answer the questions.
a … what I say is that my pictures aren’t hurting anyone, so who cares?
b “That my pictures aren’t hurting anyone is what I say, so who cares?”
c It’s true that inner beauty is very important ...
d That inner beauty is very important is true ...
1. What’s the role of the words in bold?
To act as the subject of the sentence.
2. In sentence (a), what does “what” refer to?
The things that the speaker says.
a … what I say is that my pictures aren’t hurting anyone, so who cares?
b “That my pictures aren’t hurting anyone is what I say, so who cares?”
c It’s true that inner beauty is very important ...
d That inner beauty is very important is true ...
That inner beauty is very important.
3. What does “it” refer to in sentence (c)?
Grammars
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主语从句:在句子中担当主语的是一个从句,这个从句就叫做主语从句,通常放在主句谓语动词之前或由形式主语it代替,而本身放在句子末尾。
主语从句使用陈述语序,其通常结构为“引导词 + 主语 + 谓语 + 其他成分”;但当连接代词同时充当从句主语时,其结构为“连接代词 + 谓语 + 其他成分”。
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一、主语从句的引导词
主语从句通常由连词that和whether、连接代词或连接副词以及关系代词型what引导。
1. that引导
例句:That you are coming to London is the best news I have heard this long time. 你将来伦敦是好久以来我听到的最好消息。
2. whether引导
例句:Whether they would support us was a problem. 他们是否会支持我们还是一个问题。
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3. 连接代词引导
例句:Whoever is top from wins the game when two matched players meet. 两强相争勇者胜。
4. 连接副词引导
例句:How this happended is not clear to anyone. 这件事怎样发生的,谁也不清楚。
5. 关系代词型what引导
例句:What struck m