Sentence Structure: Passives, Conditionals, and Quantifiers
摘要
This chapter delves into advanced English sentence structures, beginning with a detailed examination of passive voice construction, its purpose, and its interaction with verb forms. It then explores participles, distinguishing between their verbal and adjectival/adverbial functions, and their occasional role as nouns (gerunds). The chapter also introduces negative sensitive elements in English, explaining their dependence on negation and their unique behavior in question sentences. Finally, it provides a comprehensive overview of reported speech, including its function in communication, its structural components, and the common reporting verbs used. The chapter concludes with an in-depth discussion of quantifiers, exploring their various uses, connotations, and grammatical behaviors with countable and uncountable nouns.