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定语从句
Attributive Clause
定语从句 Attributive Clause
定义:定语从句(Attributive Clause)就是修饰名词或者代词的从句,通常在被修饰词的后面,本质上相当于形容词的作用,被修饰的名词或者代词叫做先行词(Antecedent)。
分类:定语从句分为限制性定语从句(Restrictive Attributive Clause)和非限制性定语从句(Non-restrictive Attributive Clause)。限制性定语从句是先行词不可或缺的部分,若去掉则表达不完整。非限制性定语从句是先行词的附加说明,去掉也不影响主句意思,与主句通常用逗号分开。
eg:Success will come to him who is honest and diligent.
My wife, who is out at the moment, will phone you when she gets back.
一.定语从句的引导词
1.先行词是人,且在从句中作主语时,用关系代词(Relative Pronoun) who/that;作宾语时,用who/whom/that或者省略。
eg:The man who/that lives in that house is my uncle.
That is the girl (who/whom/that) I met at the party yesterday.
2.先行词是物,用关系代词which/that充当主语和宾语,作宾语时可以省略。which还可以指婴儿、动物、表示单数意义的集合名词、人的身份、地位、职业等。
eg:My favorite place is Kunming which/that is called as the Spring City.
This is the place (which/that) he would like to visit.
3.先行词是人或物,且在从句中作定语时用whose引导,也可以替换为of which(指物)和of whom(指人)。
eg:You're the only one whose advice he might listen to.
They live in a room whose window opens to the north.
人
物
主语
宾语
定语
主语
宾语
who/that
定语
who/whom/that/省略
whose/of whom
which/that
which/that/省略
whose/of which
只用that不用which引导定语从句的特殊情况
1.当先行词是all,everything,nothing,something,little,none等不定代词时;
2.当先行词被序数词或形容词最高级修饰时;
3.当先行词被no,every,some,any,only,very,much等限定词修饰时;
4.当先行词既有人又有物时;
5.当先行词为主句的表语或关系代词为从句的表语时;
6.There be句型中,先行词为物时;
7.当先行词前面有who,which,what等特殊代词时。
eg:1.He is the only person that I want to see.
2.All that we need is the support from you.
3.Who is the lady that is waiting at the school gate?
4.There is a room in the building that is still free.
5.Our school is no longer the school that it used to be.
6.The first lesson that I learned will never be forgotten.
7.The passengers and parcels that filled the car were mixed.
只用which不用that引导定语从句的特殊情况
1.which可以引导非限制性定语从句,that不能;
2.which之前可以接介词,that不能;
3.当先行词本身为that时。
eg:1.He changed his mind, which made me very angry.
2.The questions are all on art, about which I know nothing.