《美國文學教程》中的若干語法表達問題(02)

挑刺書名：《美國文學教程》

出版單位：南開大學出版社

書    號：ISBN 7-310-00751-4

出版時間：1995年8月第1版

■6. It was at this critical moment that the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in May, 1787, during which fifty-five delegates wrote a wholly new Constitution, instead of revising the Articles of Confederation as called by the Continental Congress.（第26頁第11-15行）

問題：顯然，the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia 應改為被動語態 the Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia。

■7. After the purchase of Louisiana, the Americans turned their attention to this vast land that had a few ranchers and hunters living in it.（第69頁第7-9行）

問題：這句中的定語從句不僅不符合英語表達習慣，即表示某地存在某物應該用there be句型之外，而且定語從句本身存在語法問題。顯然，定語從句中的in it完全多余。

■8. Generally speaking, the poetry of Philip Frenuea bears the first distinctly romantic quality in American literature, but it did not established the trend.（第76頁第7-10行）

問題：這句中的did not established應改為did not establish，這是初中學生都不會犯的錯誤。

■9. Edward Everett and George Ticknor ranked among the representatives of those at first came into contact with European romanticism…（第76頁第18-20行）

問題：顯然，those at first came into contact應改為those who at first came into contact才符合英語語法。

■10. His travel to Europe brought him not only into contact with romanticism but also the meeting with Sir Walter Scott, one the most important English authors of the period…（第76頁倒數第6-4行）

問題：這句話中的one the most important 應改為one of the most important才符合英語表達習慣。

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■本文摘自英語語言學博士黃衛峰教授著的《英語語言文化散論》（國防科技大學出版社）！如有兄弟網站轉載本文，務請注明來源！