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1993年高考(MET 93)有这样一道英语选择题: I remember______this used to be a quiet village. A.when B.how C.where D.what 答案是A。这道题不少考生感觉较难,对这句看似简单的话究竟该如何理解心中没有把握。 显然,问题出在when引导的从句中。 我们知道,疑问词,亦即wh-词,引导的特殊疑问句以陈述句语序出现时,它就成了名词从句,可以在复合句中担任各种句子成份。以when为例,就有:
The 1993 college entrance examination (MET 93) had such an English multiple-choice question: I remember______this used to be a quiet village. A.when B.how C.where D.what The answer was A. Many candidates on this issue feel more difficult, and it seems impossible to understand how this sentence is understood to be simple. Obviously, the problem lies in the clause that we are guiding. We know that when interrogative words, ie wh-words, guide specific question sentences appear in declarative sentences, they become noun clauses and can serve as various sentence constituents in compound sentences. For example, when: