此处总结一下what从句做主语时,谓语动词的单复数情况:
当what在从句中充当主语时,主句谓语动词的单复数由what引导的主语从句中的谓语动词的单复数决定。例如:
(1) What is difficult to understand IS(看前面从句的谓语动词is) A.
(2) What are difficult to understand ARE(看前面从句的谓语动词are) A and B.
当what在从句中充当宾语时,主句谓语动词的单复数由主句的表语/宾语决定。例如:
What his father left him ARE(看主句宾语或者表语,即 a few books) a few English books.
leaking its cargo of 750,000 gallons into the ocean, while causing the pollution of the city's beaches.
while表示leaking 和causing的并列,都是状语修饰主句动作,逻辑主语都是主句主语,表示同时,
插入语必须头尾用两个逗号将其隔开
,98 percent of men and 75 percent of women who were born in the country, by the time they reached adulthood had been attacked by the birds
adulthood少了逗号
原句:The influence of Jane Austen is more apparent nowhere in early American literature than in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.
完全倒装句:Nowhere in early American literature is the influence of Jane Austen more apparent than in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.
A英语语法规定,-’s型的所有格中,例如A’s B,A是不能有修饰语(包括同位语和定语)
E逻辑上可以理解为一个记着的“NB的exploits”错误