内容正文:
Defining and Non-defining Clauses
objective
To use the Defining and Non-defining Clauses correctly
语法讲解建议采用归纳法,如尽可能多的呈现一些相关例句,或可让学生从已学课文中找相应例句,引导学生试着从所观察到的语言现象中总结出语言规则和语法规律。
Read these sentences and discuss which words in the sentences the clauses (in italics) refer to.
There were inventions and developments in China which were not available in Europe at that time.
Marco was lucky enough to meet another prisoner who enjoyed listening to his stories about China.
The prisoner then wrote the stories in a book called The Description of the World, which became one of the best-selling books in Europe.
Which of the clauses above gives
1) information to identify the person(s) / object(s) ? (defining clause)
2) extra information about a person or a thing, which can be left out? (non-defining clause)
限制性定语从句:
所谓限制性定语从句就是先行词在意义
上不可缺少定语, 如果去掉, 主句就失
去意义或意义不完整。这种从句和先行
词的关系十分密切, 写时不用逗号和主
句分开。
限制性定语从句和非限制性定语从句:
Do you remember the girl who taught
us English?
你还记得教我们英语的那个女孩吗?
(如果把从句部分去掉, 整个句子的