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Unit 5
Humans and Nature
Grammar Focus
relative clauses
Review the passage and answer the questions.
1. Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
2. What happened to the storyteller?
3. What were the three observations the
storyteller made?
4. Why did the storyteller survive while his
elder brother didn’t?
Observing and Exploring
Read the sentences from the text. Underline the words that introduce relative clauses and circle the words that the relative clauses refer to.
1. That was the day when it took only six hours to beak my body
and soul.
2. … the reason why I’m here to tell the story is that I made the
right decision.
3. … and the waves soon carried me to an area where the other
fishermen were.
Relative Clauses
1. a Is there a shop nearby? I want to buy some sweets in the shop.
b Is there a shop nearby where I can buy some sweets ?
2. a We can go there on Sunday. Few people go to work on Sunday.
b We can go there on Sunday when few people go to work.
3. a He was so upset for some reason. He didn’t tell me the reason.
b He didn’t tell me the reason why he was so upset.
Which choice (a or b) do you think is better?
关系副词是联系先行词和定语从句的词,属于副词。定语从句中的关系副词有三个:when, where和why,它们在定语从句中分别作时间、地点和原因状语。其句法结构如下:
Do you know the date
The camera records the time when we have to hand in the essay?
when the photo is taken.
when指时间,在定语从句中作时间状语。
关系副词用法总结
where指地点,在定语从句中作地点状语。
I recently went back to the town
I would like to live in a place where I grew up.
where there is plenty of sunshine.
关系副词用法总结
why只用于reason之后的限制性定语从句中,在定语从句中作原因状语。
关系副词用法总结
That is the reason
I didn’t get a pay rise, but this wasn’t the reason why I did the job.
why I left.
介词+which
when、where和why都可以替换成“介词 + which”,介词的选用取就于先行词和定语从句中的动词。
Do you know the date
I would like to live in a place
That is the reason on which we have to hand in the essay?
in which there is plenty of sunshine.
for which I left.
Example:
My story happened on a dark night when …
Prepare a story about somethi