090919 英文文法句子分析
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“The opposition sprang up a day after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled long-delayed legislation that would transform the nation's health care system, requiring almost everyone to buy insurance, making insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions and reining in spiraling health care costs.”
Comments:
A. Simpler Sentence
This sentence is too long and clumsy. The message can come across clearer if we rewrite it into a simpler form, as follows:
“The opposition sprang up a day after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled a long-delayed legislation that would transform the nation's existing health care system.
The proposed legislation has three noticeable features:
(a) it requires almost everyone to buy insurance;
(b) it makes insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions; and
(c) it reins in spiraling health care costs.”
B. Grammatical Components of Original Sentence
1. 2 Main Parts: There are two main parts in the sentence: “The opposition” is the Subject Phrase (主词), and all the rest of the sentence is the Predicate Phrase (谓词).
2. Subject Phrase: The Subject Phrase is made up of (a) the Subject: “opposition”, and (b) an Article (冠词) Adjective (形容词): “The”.
3. Predicate Phrase: The Predicate Phrase is made up of an Intransitive Verb (不及物动词) “sprang”, followed by a Prepositional Phrase (前置词).
4. Prepositional Phrase #1: The Prepositional Phrase is preceded by a Preposition “up” followed by a Noun Phrase, which is the rest of the sentence. The Prepositional Phrase modifies (修饰) the direction of how the verb “sprang” goes, i.e., up.
Notice that in grammar, a preposition is usually followed by a noun, a pronoun, a nominal, a gerund, or a noun phrase.
5. Noun Phrase: The Noun Phrase here is made up of a noun “day”, an Article Adjective “a”, and another very long Prepositional Phrase which is the rest of the sentence “after Senate Finance…” which modifies the noun “day”.
6. Prepositional Phrase #2: The noun “legislation” in the prepositional phrase “after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled long-delayed legislation” is modified by four Adjective Clauses:
(a) a Relative Clause that starts with the connector “that”: “that would transform the nation's health care system”;
(b) three Present Participle Phrases: “requiring almost everyone to buy insurance”, “making insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions”, and “and reining in spiraling health care costs”.
I can further describe the grammatical components of each of the phrases, but I have to stop before putting all of you to sleep.
If you are interested, you have to find out by yourself what those grammatical terminologies are in Chinese.
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“The opposition sprang up a day after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled long-delayed legislation that would transform the nation's health care system, requiring almost everyone to buy insurance, making insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions and reining in spiraling health care costs.”
Comments:
A. Simpler Sentence
This sentence is too long and clumsy. The message can come across clearer if we rewrite it into a simpler form, as follows:
“The opposition sprang up a day after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled a long-delayed legislation that would transform the nation's existing health care system.
The proposed legislation has three noticeable features:
(a) it requires almost everyone to buy insurance;
(b) it makes insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions; and
(c) it reins in spiraling health care costs.”
B. Grammatical Components of Original Sentence
1. 2 Main Parts: There are two main parts in the sentence: “The opposition” is the Subject Phrase (主词), and all the rest of the sentence is the Predicate Phrase (谓词).
2. Subject Phrase: The Subject Phrase is made up of (a) the Subject: “opposition”, and (b) an Article (冠词) Adjective (形容词): “The”.
3. Predicate Phrase: The Predicate Phrase is made up of an Intransitive Verb (不及物动词) “sprang”, followed by a Prepositional Phrase (前置词).
4. Prepositional Phrase #1: The Prepositional Phrase is preceded by a Preposition “up” followed by a Noun Phrase, which is the rest of the sentence. The Prepositional Phrase modifies (修饰) the direction of how the verb “sprang” goes, i.e., up.
Notice that in grammar, a preposition is usually followed by a noun, a pronoun, a nominal, a gerund, or a noun phrase.
5. Noun Phrase: The Noun Phrase here is made up of a noun “day”, an Article Adjective “a”, and another very long Prepositional Phrase which is the rest of the sentence “after Senate Finance…” which modifies the noun “day”.
6. Prepositional Phrase #2: The noun “legislation” in the prepositional phrase “after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled long-delayed legislation” is modified by four Adjective Clauses:
(a) a Relative Clause that starts with the connector “that”: “that would transform the nation's health care system”;
(b) three Present Participle Phrases: “requiring almost everyone to buy insurance”, “making insurance companies cover people with pre-existing medical conditions”, and “and reining in spiraling health care costs”.
I can further describe the grammatical components of each of the phrases, but I have to stop before putting all of you to sleep.
If you are interested, you have to find out by yourself what those grammatical terminologies are in Chinese.
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I'm Frank.thanks for your analyzing.I agree with your view about sentences which can made by reader easily to understand. However there are too many complex and confused sentences during our studying process. so i have no choice but to face up them.
回复：Frank: you're welcome Alex
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