谓语动词为leave的定语从句修饰地点名词时如何选用关系词

动词leave在做动词“离开”意思讲的时候,既是及物动词,也是不及物动词,如:

I left.

I left the place.

都是完整的句子。那这里就有一个问题是,如何判断后一个地点名词是宾语呢?还是状语呢?

有这么一道题:

What did he see when he came back to the spot _____ he left?

A. that  B. which C. where

如果这里将先行词理解为从句宾语,那么that和which好像都可以;如果这里将先行词理解为从句状语,好像where也可以。所以感觉到很疑惑,还请老师解惑!

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最佳答案 2018-09-27 23:23

我猜本题的参考答案是C where,并且我也认为应该选C,而不是A或B。

本句的关键不是定语从句修饰地点名词时如何选择关系词,而是动词leave表示离开某地或某处,在前面已经提及该地或该处的情况下,应该使用代词还是副词指代该地点或处所的问题。

例如,“他来到市场, 买了些东西,然后离开了。”这句话用英语表达时如果用leave作谓语,是不能重复名词市场的。要么leave用作不及物动词,要么用the place作宾语,要么用副词there作宾语,但较少用人称代词或指示代词指代该地点。

He came to the market, bought something and left a few minutes later.

He came to the market, bought something and left there a few minutes later.

He came to the market, bought something and left it a few minutes later.

我们读上面三个句子,会觉得前两句leave用作不及物动词或后接there作宾语读起来很自然,而用it指代market则有些不自然。

动词leave作离开解时,是可以后接副词here,there,somewhere作宾语的,尤其是口语中,并且后接人称代词it指代地点更常见。

关系词引导定语从句,其实就是关系词取代了人称代词、指示代词和指示副词。

既然地点副词可以作leave的宾语,关系副词引导定语从句时就可以作leave的宾语。it指代地点,作leave的宾语不及there自然,所以where引导定语从句并在从句中作leave的宾语,就比关系代词which或that(取代it)自然。

单选题是选择最佳答案,不是唯一正确答案,故where为最佳答案,优于用which或that。

关于leave后接地点副词作宾语证明:

1 COCA例句

 When he left there, he'd asked me to come with him to the city.

That's been circulating every year since I left there.

Reports said they initially went into the sheriff's office but later witnesses reported they left there and drove away. 

left there for an hour and a half.

...but everybody understood we had to get a usable document by the time we left there a week after the July Fourth weekend.

 ...and there had been a few other things since I'd left there, ...

But hopefully they left there saying,' I love Coach Avalos.' 

You left there crying, did you say? 

2 BNC例句

 We left there, we left about half five, six in the morning didn't we?

We should of just got in the car and left there and then, parked 

 I was two when we left there.

But she left there and got another job in.

Well when I left there, and joined the army, I was getting twenty seven shillings a week.

Oh I cried when I left there, I really did, it upset me.

...and I think I was about fifteen when I left there.

3《朗文》注释词义时的用语

set off: (especially British English )to leave somewhere and begin a journey

go: (especially spoken) to leave somewhere

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What did he see when he came back to the spot _____ he left?

A. that  B. which C. where

我觉得网友的这道题应选 that, which,而不宜选 where。

没错,leave可以用作及物或不及物动词,但前提是:没有宾语,它是不及物动词;有宾语时,它是及物动词。我们不能在有宾语的前提下将它用作不及物动词。如:

可以说:He left. / He left the place.

但不能说:He left from the place. / He left in the place.(我们不能将这类句子的 leave 看作是不及物动词而将其视为正确的句子)

基于此,我们可以推知,网友的句子不能选 where,因为关系副词where=“介词+which”,而leave表示离开某个地方时是不能带介词的。

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网友的问题,确实很有意思。

除了时态有点问题以外,这个句子可以有4个答案。定语从句的时态,应该是“过去完成时”,说明“离开”发生在“回来” 之前,应表达出这种先后关系。4种表达分别如下:

1. What did he see when he came back to the spot he had left?

2. What did he see when he came back to the spot where he had left?

3. What did he see when he came back to the spot that he had left?

4. What did he see when he came back to the spot which he had left?

以上4句:句1最简练,句2也可。句3、句4的关系代词that, which 最好省略掉,因为句子本身是一个多层复合句,成分能省略就省略,能简练就简练。

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