with whom在句子中做什么成分?

The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled.

  这里的with  whom是什么成分?

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最佳答案 2020-08-22 17:50

The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled.

划线部分为修饰people的定语从句。红色部分为修饰no one的不定式短语。

介词+which+to do为带关系代词的不定式短语,这是正式语体形式。如果把介词移到不定式末尾,省略关系代词,就是普通的不定式了:to do (sth)+介词。

不定式作定语表示动宾(或介宾)关系,本质上是定语从句的简略形式。例如:

I have a letter to write

= I have a letter which I am to wirte.

I have something to talk about.

= I have something that I am to talk about.

I have something about which to talk.

= I have something about which I am to talk.

I have someone to discuss the matter with.

= I have someone who(m) I am to discuss the matter with.

I have someone with whom I am to discuss the matter.

定语从句中划线部分省略,就得到不定式作定语。由此也可以看出不定式作定语仍然是主动意义,而不是主动形式表示被动意义。

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曾克辉  
擅长:英语考试

who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters是定语从句修饰people,其中with whom to discuss important matters也是定语修饰one,这是省略主语而用一个特殊的不定式短语(通常用主动式)代替或简化定语从句,不定式动作的执行者是people,即with whom to discuss... = with whom they can discuss...(whom指代one)。1984版高中英语第二册第14课“The Gifts”中就有类似的一个表达:

Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim, her husband, a present. 明天就是圣诞节了,她只有1美元87美分给她丈夫吉姆买礼物。(句中的with which to buy = with which she could buy


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