Grammar
1) Appositive Clauses
An appositive is a word or group of wordsthat identifies or renames another word in a sentence. It offers concise waysof describing or defining a person, place, or thing. An appositive most oftenappears directly after the noun it identifies or renames.
Forexample:
thebald eagle, the symbol of America
SteveRace, the musician and broadcaster
my husbandGeorge
Practice
Give further information about the people orthings in the following sentences by using an appositive clause.
1. When travelling by air, we allshall remember Orville Wright, __________.
2. DavidBeckham, ____________, is a loving father in his private life.
3. Red,__________, is associated with luck and happiness.
4. Norman Bethune, _________, died of infection in 1939 after he was trying to save aPLA soldier’s life.
5. ____________, Mark Twain worked in his earlierlife as a master riverboatpilot on the Mississippi River.
2) Comparison
You can use comparative adjectives or comparative adverbsto say that something has more of a quality than something else, or more thanit used to have. Another way of comparing things is to say that it has more ofa quality than anything else of its kind. You do this by using superlativeadjectives or superlative adverbs. It is also possible to makecomparisons by using words and structures which indicate that something is thesame as something else or is done in the same way, such as “as”, “as … as”, “like”,“the way”, “same”, “similar”, “alike”, just to name a few.
For example:
The familymoved to a smaller house.
I thought I could deal with it betterthan him.
Now we come to the most importantthing.
It is
Jane was not as clever as him.
They all looked alike.
Practice
Translate the following into English, using the expressionsin brackets.
1. 我无法忍受那噪音。(more than)
2. 他和他的兄弟一样都对化学毫无兴趣。(no more … than)
3. 这个肿瘤的大小和高尔夫球差不多。(the size of)
4. 这两种办法同样有效。(equally)
5. 她看起来一点也不高兴。(lessthan)
6. 你闻上去像多日没洗澡的流浪汉似的！(like)
