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语法特点 多名词短语, 少从句 省略 be 动词, 逗号代替 冒号代替系动词 不严格遵守时态的一致
多名词短语, 少从句 The price tag wasn’t the biggest issue for Goldman, a publicist, and her fund-raiser husband, Jon. (The price tag wasn’t the biggest issue for Goldman who was a publicist, and her husband who was a fund-raiser.)
省略 be 动词, 逗号代替 The first question is, of course, what are the needs. The second is what is being done, and the third, (is) what should and could be done.
冒号代替系动词 From the age of nine he smoked two or five packs of cigarettes a day. His brands: (were) King Bee and Picaynes.
不严格遵守时态的一致 It was the idea of buying such an extravagant gadget for a kid who still hasn’t mastered long division.
语法特点 - 弹性 / 灵活多变 形容词 + 职业 / 头衔 / 人名 (× 同位语 ) ’s (×of) (hyphen)- 多被动语态
形容词 + 职业 / 头衔 / 人名 (× 同位语 ) When asked in polls about Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman, 60 percent to 70 percent of respondents said ……
’s (×of) New York’s Clinton Senate Hillary
(hyphen)- A faster-than-needed appreciation could cause the prices of many goods made in China to go up.
多被动语态 We have a disproportionate number of cases where people come in with something they think ought to be tried, or that they’ve read on the Internet ought to be tried.