介词+关系代词
“介词+关系代词”引导的定语从句普遍用于正式的文体中,在非正式文体中介词也能够放在后面,比如I found a room in which I can study.(正式) = I found a room I can study in.(非正式) 。
“介词+关系代词”的情况一般用来替代关系副词(where,when,why),when和where都能够用in/on/at which来替代,而关系副词why被for which取代时有一个条件,即前面的先行词必须是the reason。
能够用“介词+关系代词”这种形式的关系代词主要有which和whom,个别情况有whose。判断是否用“介词+关系代词”一般有这样两个依据:
1. 根据从句中的动词,形容词,名词和介词的固定搭配而定。
2. 根据先行词与从句中动词的关系及其含义而定。
让我们从新概念三册的原句中来学习一下
第5课: However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that…… (in which中的which代指的是fax,而在传真中应该是in
the fax)
第17课: Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and named it Angouleme. (这里牵扯到固定用法:know about,表示对…有所了解)
第17课: They support the cables from which the bridge has been suspended.(这里是和后面动词的固定搭配相关,be suspended from)
第32课: The most valuable find of all was the ship's log book, parts of which it was still possible to read. (which表示log book,这里作者要表达的是log book 的一部分,所以用part of)
第60课: She felt inhere handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details… … (这里如同第5课的原句,介词搭配和名词paper相关,应该是on the paper)
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