Attributive_Clause英语中的限制性定语从句

Part Two
Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made __ the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone knows, the __ two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution of carrying with the same language as before. ____ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown __ the world that political independence and national identity can be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common language.


Who is the boy with whom you were talking a moment ago? Who is the boy (that/whom) you were talking with a moment ago?
“That” must be used as a relative when…
1.Attributive clauses introduced by relative pronouns.

Relative pronouns can be functioned as subjects, objects or attributives.
Examples



Where is the girl who (that) was injured in the accident? The man whom (that) you saw just now is our manager. Is there anyone here whose name is Wang Lin?
“as” can be used to introduce an attributive clause. It mainly exists in “such…as” or “the same …as” structures and represents the antecedents being nouns for people or things. In “the same…as” structure, “that” can also be used to replace “as”.

But when we put the preposition at the end of the sentence and its object in front, we can still use “that” relative. “That” also can be omitted.

The book (that/which) I got a lot of useful information from was written by a famous physicist.
Please translate:


他来得正是时候。（我们正急需帮助的那一刻， 他来了） He came at a time when (at which) we were badly in need of help.

我工作的那所学校离这儿不远。 The school where (in which) I work is not far from here.



When the relatives are prepositional objects, we can not use “that”. Instead, we have to use “whom” or “which”. And they cannot be omitted.

The book from which (not “that”) I got a lot of useful information was written by a famous physicist.
Unit 12 Attributive Clause
What is an attributive clause?

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A clause which is functioned as an attributive to modify a noun or a pronoun, and sometimes a sentence.
Please fill in the missing parts.

all that I am interested in ______ you have told me. 你告诉我的一切我都感兴趣。



He asked for ___________ was on the subject. 他要有关这个内容的最好的书。
Proofreading & Error correction==Test for English Majors


The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. They might be a wrong word, a missing word, or an unnecessary word.

The word or phrase which is modified by the attributive clause.
Where should we put the attributive clause?

The attributive clause usually follows the antecedent immediately.
Part One:
The desire to use language as a sign of national identity Is a very natural one, and in result language has played a ___ prominent part in national moves. Men have often felt the ___ need to cultivate a given language to show that they are distinctive from another race whose hegemony they resent.__ At the time the United Sates split off from Britain, for ex- ____ ample,there were proposals the independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a different language from __ those of Britain. There was even one proposal that Ameri-__ cans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of
Most of the attributive clauses are introduced by relatives (关系词).

What is a relative and what are the functions of it?


It plays some relative functions between the antecedent and the clause. It both introduces the attributive clause and acts as a certain constituent in the clause in place of the antecedent. The man who wrote this book is a wellknown scientist.

他没有给出理由昨天为什么不来。 He didn’t give the reason why (for which) he was absent yesterday.

我们很欣赏他面对困难的方式。 We admired him for the way (in which) he faced his difficulties.


the antecedents are those indefinite pronouns such as “all, everything, something, nothing…” modified by “first, last, only, few, much, some, any, no” and the superlative degrees of adjectives.
3.What is the difference between the defining and non-defining attributive clause?

Defining and non-defining attributive clauses are differentiated from the relations with the antecedents.
Please interpret the sentences


He has a daughter who works in a hospital. He has a daughter, who works in a hospital.
4. “as” in attributive clause

the best book that

When we have two antecedents and one for people and the other for things, we use “that” to introduce the attributive clause.
We were deeply impressed by the that teachers and schools ______ we had visited there.

2.Attributives clauses introduced by relative adverbs



The relative adverbs will be functioned as time, place or cause adverbials in the clause. When=at, on, in , during which Where= in, at which Why= for which How= in which
Please be noted!

The relative “that” sometimes can be omitted. Under what circumstances? In oral or informal occasions and used as an object. Have you found the book (that) you want?

How many types of relatives are there?


Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, whose Relative adverbs: when, where, why, how
What is an antecedent?