Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstac...Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstacles the students might confront in their reading. This essay makes a summary of various difficulties that hinder the students＇ successful reading comprehension, from the aspects of vocabulary, sentence and grammar, understanding of a passage, habits of reading, logic thinking, meanings of language and culture background.展开更多
As grammatical words, conjunction and relative pronoun play a similar role. They join clauses, phrases, and even words. The terms independent and dependent clauses have become popular for quite a long time. When the c...As grammatical words, conjunction and relative pronoun play a similar role. They join clauses, phrases, and even words. The terms independent and dependent clauses have become popular for quite a long time. When the concept of clause and sentence meets at the presence of NP （Noun Phrase） and VP （Verb Phrase）, there is a right to consider construction as an S or a sentence leaving the conjunction and relative pronoun as means of uniting device and leaving every NP-VP construction as equal units. By employing an embedding theory, we can see hidden parts of a sentence and their roles in other sentences. This article tries to see if it is still necessary to distinguish between dependent and independent clauses.展开更多
文摘Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstacles the students might confront in their reading. This essay makes a summary of various difficulties that hinder the students＇ successful reading comprehension, from the aspects of vocabulary, sentence and grammar, understanding of a passage, habits of reading, logic thinking, meanings of language and culture background.
文摘As grammatical words, conjunction and relative pronoun play a similar role. They join clauses, phrases, and even words. The terms independent and dependent clauses have become popular for quite a long time. When the concept of clause and sentence meets at the presence of NP （Noun Phrase） and VP （Verb Phrase）, there is a right to consider construction as an S or a sentence leaving the conjunction and relative pronoun as means of uniting device and leaving every NP-VP construction as equal units. By employing an embedding theory, we can see hidden parts of a sentence and their roles in other sentences. This article tries to see if it is still necessary to distinguish between dependent and independent clauses.
