2011年成考专升本英语关键句型八

　　1、修饰成分（包括定语、定语从句、同位语从句等）多而长。

　　Across the court from the Manhattan apartment that I have occupied for the past few years is a dog that often hurls insults into the darkness,a few of which my dog refuses to accept and makes a tart reply.

　　2、一些外位语，所谓外位修饰，指从句子结构和内容上不起主要信息表达功能的部分。其作用是从语气和连接上下文等方面进行补充。在翻译成汉语时，往往可独立成句，外形上不保留修饰的痕迹。

　　Of course,nobody was hurt this time,because we had all been to dinner,none of us being novices excepting Hastings;and he having been informed by the minister at the time that he invited him that in deference to the English custom the had not provided any dinner.