RON课程SC笔记 prep知识点.docx

AmbiguityThe unemployment rate in Esteria last month was 5.3%, compared to the rate in Burdistan.是错的，因为后半句没有意义，compare to/with要与数字放在一起才对；要特别注意“PREP+NOUN+VING”的形式，如果VING是PREP的对象，则这个就是错的，如：the evidence of my brother stealing。这里就只能说是我兄弟的证据，然后stealing可以修饰我兄弟也可以修饰证据。Idiom比较词：一般认为rather than=instead of，不过Rather than多对动词而instead of多对名词；习惯表达：1）Immigrants from the Mideast is BETTER. Mideast CANNOT be used as an adjective of nationality. For the same reason, you CANNOT say Asia People in place of People from Asia.为什么会有with whom、to which这样的东西出现：不能用介词结尾。A NOUN TO VERB is CORRECT ONLY when Noun is ABSTRACT