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定 语 从 句
一、什么叫定语从句?
定语是用来限定、修饰名词或代词的,是对名词或代词起修饰、限定作用的词、短语或句子,汉语中常用“……的”表示。主要由形容词担任,也可以由一个句子来担任。单词作定语时通常放在它所修饰的词之前,作前置定语。短语和从句作定语时则放在所修饰的词之后,作后置定语。如:
a red pen(red修饰名词pen,就是pen的前置定语)
the book on the desk(on the desk修饰名词book,就是book的后置定语)
在复合句中,修饰一个名词或代词的从句,叫定语从句。如:
Do you know the man who spoke at the meeting just now?
That is the house where he lived ten years ago.
The man who lives next to us is a policeman.
You must do everything that I do.
被定语从句修饰的名词或代词叫先行词。定语从句的作用也就相当于形容词在修饰先行词。所以翻译定语从句时,从句要放到先行词前面去翻译。引导定语从句的词叫关系词。关系词放在先行词与定语从句之间起连接作用,同时又代替先行词在从句中的充当一个成分。关系词分为关系代词和关系副词两种。
引导定语从句的关系代词有:that, who, whom, whose, which, as;
引导定语从句的关系副词有:when, where, why.
二、关系词的用法
A)关系代词的用法
1.作主语时指人用who或that,指物时用which或that,如:
He is the man who/that lives next door.
The train which/that has just left is for Shenzhen.
2.作宾语时指人用whom, who或that。(注:who和whom已无太大区别,可以通用。)指物时用which或that。在非正式文体中,用作宾语时,指人的关系代词who, whom, that 通常可以省略,但在正式文体中通常用whom, 不可省略;用于指物的关系代词which和that 在非正式文体中也通常省略,但在正式文体中一般不省略。如:
The man (whom/who/that) we have just seen is a famous writer.
Where is the book (which/that) I bought last week?
3.作定语用whose, 如:
He is the man whose car was stolen last week.
It was a meeting whose importance I did not realize at that time.
注:“whose + 名词中心词”这一结构在定语从句中既能作主语(如上第一句),又能作宾语(如上第二句)。whose 的先行词常用来指人,但有时也可以用来指具体事物或抽象概念,这时可以与of which 结构互换,词序是:“名词 + of which”,如:
They came to a house whose back wall had broken down.. (= the back wall of which)
He’s written a book the name of which I’ve completely forgotten. (= whose name)
4.作表语只用that,它既可以指人,也可以指物,但时常省略。如:
He is no longer the man that he used to be.
This is no longer the dirty place (that) it used to be.
B)关系副词的用法
1.when 指时间,在从句中作时间状语,它的先行词常是:time, day, morning, night, week, year等。如:
I still remember the time when I first became a college student.
Do you know the date when Lincoln was born?
注:表示时间“time”一词的定语从句只用when引导,when时常可以省略,特别是在某些句型和某些时间状语中。如:
Each time he came, he did his best to help us.
But help never stopped c