大学英语六级改错指导：句子结构混乱

本期重点：句子结构混乱
主要问题是一个简单句出现了两个或多个谓语，或者用动词作句子的主语或宾语, 或者句子关系结构混乱等

考点例析
例1：In ordinary speech, a person of culture is the individual
can speak another language - the person who is familiar S5.______
with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or history.
解析：这个句子出现了两个位于动词，在英语中不符合语言规范，从下文可以看出后面部分是修饰individual的定语从句，缺少了引导词，所以要在can前加who或that。
例2：There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or
Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of S3._______
seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-
century Paris.
解析：本句大意是：在孟买或巴西利亚周边有一些落后的城镇，正如17世纪的伦敦或19世纪初期周边也有一些落后城镇一样。两句之间的连词应该表示比较，“与...相同”，使后一句成为前一句的比较状语从句。连词as意为“像...一样”，前面just强调程度表示“正如，与...相同”。
例3：When the wedding is gathered by the altar, the bride and
groom exchange vows. Fllowing the vows, the couple
exchange rings. Wear the wedding ring on the forth finger of ________
the left hand is an old custom.
解析：本句的主语是动词短语Wear the wedding ring on the forth finger of the left hand，但动词本身不能做主语，只有用其相应的动名词形式才能做主语，所以将wear改为wearing