Attributive_Clause英语中的限制性定语从句.pptVIP

Proofreading Error correction==Test for English Majors The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. They might be a wrong word, a missing word, or an unnecessary word. Part One: The desire to use language as a sign of national identity Is a very natural one, and in result language has played a ___ prominent part in national moves. Men have often felt the ___ need to cultivate a given language to show that they are distinctive from another race whose hegemony they resent.__ At the time the United Sates split off from Britain, for ex- ____ ample,there were proposals the independence should be lin- guistically accepted by the use of a different language from __ those of Britain. There was even one proposal that Ameri-__ cans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of Part Two Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made __ the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone knows, the __ two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution of carrying with the same language as before. ____ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown __ the world that political independence and national identity can be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual ad- vantages of a common language. Unit 12 Attributive Clause What is an attributive clause? A clause which is functioned as an attributive to modify a noun or a pronoun, and sometimes a sentence. Most of the attributive clauses are introduced by relatives (关系词). What is a relative and what are the functions of it? It plays some relative functions between the antecedent and the clause. It both introduces the attributive clause and acts as a certain constituent in the clause in place of the antecedent. The man who wrote this book is a well-known scientist. How m