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Unit 4 Scientists who changed the world
Grammar and usage
Verb-ed forms as attributives,
adverbials and object complements
1.Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the People’s Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize, awarded for her contribution to the fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases in human history.
2. Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of survival.
verb-ed forms as attributives
4. Born in 1930, in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Tu studied medicine at university in Beijing between 1951 and 1955.
5. Inspired by an over 1,600-year-old text about preparing qinghao extract with cold water, Tu redesigned the experiments.
verb-ed forms as adverbials
3. Even with large amounts of qinghao extract produced, however, they still faced another problem.
verb-ed forms as object complement
bacteria
penicillin
mould
Read Alexander Fleming’s story and find the verb-ed forms in the article.
Verb-ed forms as attributives something produced by the mould
Verb-ed forms as adverbials
Verb-ed forms as object complements
the prepared mind
surprised by this
get its mass production started
Exploring the rules
The verb-ed form can appear before or after a noun or pronoun. It modifies the noun or pronoun like a(n) (2)_____________ (relative clause/adverbial clause).
relative clause
Rule 2
Rule 3
The verb-ed form can be used as an adverbial or an object
complement.
Exploring the rules
The verb-ed form can be used like an adjective or an
adverb, indicating a(n) (1) _______(active/passive) meaning.
Rule 1:
passive
Verb-ed forms as attributives
观察下列句子中动词-ed形式作定语的位置
· The results indicated that something produced by the mould had
killed the bacteria.
· Fortune favours the prepared mind.
单个动词-ed形式作定语,常被置于被修饰词之前;
动词-ed形式短语作定语,常被置于被修饰词之后。
注意1:
总结1:
动词-ed形式通常表示被动含义, 但不及物动词的-ed形式除外。
a respected writer
=a writer who is respected
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