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Unit 3
Back to the past
Grammar and usage
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视频
What is predicative?
I、找出表语和表语从句
1) He still remains a hero in people’s minds.
2) Mike was out when I called.
3) She looks ugly in her new dress.
4) Harry Porter was in his aunt’s house.
5) Their plan is to finish the experiment in a week.
6) The watch is broken.
7) What you said is quite surprising.
8) The truth is that he has never been abroad.
9) My parents' doubt is what I will become in the future.
Lead-in
表语,属于主语补足语,语法名词,是指说明主语的身份、性质、品性、特征和状态的词或从句,表语常由名词、形容词、介词短语、动名词、不定式、副词来充当,它常位于系动词之后。
系动词:1.be (am, is, are, was, were)
2.感官动词:look, sound, touch, taste, feel, touch...
3.“变成”:become, get, turn, fall, go
4.“保持”:keep, remain, stay, stand, lay
5.“似乎”:seem, appear
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Linking Verbs
系动词
be动词
感官类
变化类
am, is, are, was, were
look, sound, smell, taste, feel, seem
变得:become, get, turn, grow;
保持:keep, hold, stay, stand, remain;
可以接表语从句系动词有:
”似乎”
seem, appear
Explore the rules
His father’s dream was that one day he could write a great masterpiece recording what had happened in history. After his father died, Sima Qian succeeded his father as Grand Historian, which facilitated his access to official books and files. However, his work proved difficult, because sorting out all the available resources and checking facts of historical materials required painstaking efforts. His chief concern was whether he could do his job more effectively and efficiently.
Underline the sentences containing predicative clauses
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Work out the rules
We can use a noun clause as the predicative of a sentence.
We can use that to introduce a predicative clause when the clause is a (1) _________. We can use whether to introduce a predicative clause when the clause i