Structural analysis of English long and difficult sentences

Structural analysis skills and translation methods of English long and difficult sentences

English long sentences are complex sentences, in which there may be multiple clauses, and the relationship between clauses may be in the form of juxtaposition, inclusion and inclusion, mosaic and so on. Therefore, to analyze or translate long and difficult sentences, the first thing to be solved should be to clarify clauses and the relationship between clauses.

Compound sentences that often appear in English are: nominal clauses, including subject clauses, object clauses, predicative clauses and appositive clauses; Adjective clause, that is, attributive clause; There is also an adverbial clause.

basic approach

Candidates need to remember the following basic steps:

1. Find the subject, predicate and object of the whole sentence, that is, the main structure of the sentence.

2. Find out all the predicate structures, non-predicate structures, prepositional phrases and the leading words of clauses in the sentence;

3. Analyze the functions of clauses and phrases, such as subject clauses, object clauses, predicative clauses or adverbial clauses; And the relationship between words, phrases and clauses;

4. Analyze whether there are fixed phrases, fixed collocation and parenthesis in the sentence.

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