【幻灯片】名词性从句2.pptVIP

Join each pair of sentences Where does a person come from? This will affect their style of speech. Join each pair of sentences Why does English have such strange rules? You can begin to see it! Join each pair of sentences Why is English a language with so many confusing rules? That is the reason. We use a question word to introduce a noun clause when there is a wh-question. They can function as the subject, object or predicative of the sentence. We change the word order in a clause after a question word into that of a statement. What are people from the north saying? People from the south find it difficult to understand. We cannot leave out the question words in noun clauses in any cases. Decide what sentence element each underlined noun clause is in its sentence. It is really exciting! The difficulty is how I’m going to understand it without a dictionary. Looking up every new word will certainly be a waste of time. Now I’m worried about when I’m going to finish the book. Miss Cheng always told us to guess the meanings of unknown words from the context. I used to wonder why we should do this. I understand now, but the question is what if I still cannot understand the meanings. I must talk to Miss Cheng about this tomorrow. Fill in the blanks with suitable question words. ‘Borrowed words’ — good or bad? Languages keep borrowing words from other languages. This is one of the reasons _____ languages keep changing almost every day. _______ we should do about the increasing number of ‘borrowed words’ in our vocabulary is something people disagree about. In England today, there is no one to decide ______ new words should be included in the language. At one time the department banned some ‘borrowed words’ from English, including ‘weekend’ and ‘e-mail’. French people did this because they wanted to keep their language pure.Today, the spread of ‘borrowed words’ is due to easily accessed television and radio programmes from across the world, and