句子成分的省略 - 柯帕斯英语网

1.At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone

2.The bad news was that he could be a very dangerous person he choose to be

向刘老师请教，句子1中 would have been 后为何可以省略 afraid，句子2中choose to be 后为何可以省略 a very dangerous person

I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone.

黑体部分= as if I had been alone. 这是as if从句展开的形式。又如：

The man lay there motionless, as if he were dead.

= The man lay there motionless, as he would be if he were dead.

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擅长：动词用法,句法问题 | 采纳率 82% | 回答于 2021-05-05 23:53

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刘永科 - 教育出版集团英语总顾问 & 英语系列图书主编 2021-05-05 16:43

擅长：语法理论,语言学,文化背景

1. I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone.

黑体部分针对主句而言，是一个原因状语从句，里面又包含一个条件从句。

主句是个主系表结构，afraid 作表语，原因从句也是一个主系表结构，afraid 作表语。这样一来，结构完全相同。为避免重复，省略表语 afraid。从句使用了虚拟语气，不然的话，就是 as I was if I...

表语的省略主要是在答语中或下文中，把与上文相似或相同结构中的表语省略。

—Are you Mr. Green? 你是格林先生吗？

—Yes，I am (Mr. Green). 是的，我是。

He said he was sleepy. But he wasn't (sleepy). 他说他困了，其实不然。

I will be happy if you are (happy). 你高兴我才高兴。

2.The bad news was that he could be a very dangerous person (that) he chose to be.

黑体部分为定语从句，关系代词作表语可以省略，关系代词本身就是从句的表语，所以，be 后面不能再次出现表语 a very dangerous person。这个不属于表语省略，而是关系代词的省略。

好题 2021-05-08 09:36

擅长：英语

我读完这个句子的语感是as = like。 as 后用了虚拟语气，表示一种假设的情况。这种假设的情况就是作者说的ordinary sense的情况。作者用了否定句，说明当时他不是一般意义上所说的那种恐惧。