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Unit 5
Working the land
Discover useful structures
- Subject Clause
By the end of the class, you are able to :
Identify the usage of subject clauses and understand the function of it;
Understand the structure of subject clauses and the correct use of conjunctions;
Use the subject clauses to express your ideas
Learning Objectives
Self-learning: what do they act in the following sentences
Yuan considered himself a farmer.
His slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers.
Using salty land in China for rice` production was his latest vision.
What Yuan Longping cared about was not money or celebrity.
When a sentence serves as subject, we call it Subject Clause.
Review and Explore
Noun
Noun phrase
Gerund phrase
Subject clause
suject
what is a subject clause?
A subject clause refers to the clause that acts as the subject in a sentence. It usually falls at the beginning of the sentence, with a proper conjunction leading the clause according to specific context.
name
function
location
structure
what is a subject clause?
That Yuan had realized his dream of seawater rice surprises the whole world.
Rule 1: at the very beginning of the sentence
Rule 2 : using the statement order (conjunction+subject+verb)
Rule 3: subject-verb agreement (主谓一致,一般为单三)
Find out the subject clauses appearing in the text.
tips: 5 sentences
Para: 2/3/4/6
1. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious shortage of food to eat.
what: 从句中做主语
2. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time.
How: 从句中做状语
Whether: yes/no question 是否
3. However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate.
4. Today, it is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan's hybrid strains....
5. What impressed people most about Yuan Longping is his ongoing ability to fulfil his dreams.