后置定语与定语从句

后置定语与定语从句

英语中的后置定语往往可以分为以下几类，形容词做后置定语，现在分词做后置定语，过去分词做后置定语，不定式作后置定语。而后置定语往往可以由定语从句演变而来，这种定语从句的关系词往往是关系代词在从句中充当主语。下面我们来逐一讨论：

1.现在分词作后置定语

⑴Who is the girl dancing with your brother？（现在分词作后置定语，表正在）

可改写成定语从句Who is the girl that is dancing with your brother？

The high building being built (=which is being built)there is meant for the old without children. It is expected to be finished in a year.(正在被建)

⑵Anyone touching the wire will get a shock.可以改成定语从句Anyone who touches

the wire will get a shock.

2.过去分词做后置定语

The jewelry (which is) worn by the Indians was made of bones.

The spaceship (which was) called Shenzhou Ⅴ, was carrying China’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei.

The Indians wearing (=who wore)jewelry (which was) made of bones greeted them warmly.

3.不定时作后置定语

表示未发生或即将发生的情况如

The project （which is）to be completed next month needs more people to help.

（即将完成的）

There are more pains (which are)to come.(要来的)

Children who lived closest to the Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station were among the first to be tested.（the first，the last之后常用不定式作定语）

4.形容词作后置定语

She is an American girl interested in sports.

I am a person optimistic about everything hard in life