lecture 8 定语从句attributive clause.pptVIP

定语从句 1 Information condensed in the attributive modifier As English is a noun-dominated language, the noun phrase has a high frequency in usage .Most noun phrases contain nouns with their attributive modifiers, which can be words ,phrases or clauses. The meaning of the attributive modifier has been greatly enlarged to contain various possibilities or various logical relations between the modifier and the central word, some of which can hardly be expressed in Chinese through the “attributive +the modified “ structure. Examples: 1) warm weather: weather of fairly high temperature 暖和的天气 wa