I have just received a letter from my old school, informing me that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week.我想把informing me that 换成是 informed that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week.,这样可以吗?
首先非常感谢您的回答,我还有疑问:就像新概念二册里其他dressed in 的用法,比如第81课里,Dressed in a blue uniform and with a rifle over his shoulder, the prisoner marched boldly up and down in front of the camp.我想把上述句子中出现的非谓语的的逻辑主语变成I,并且inform是一个及物动词,我已经使用了被动语态,和dressed的用法是一样的。这么解释也不行吗?
追答问题是你的句子中inform的逻辑主语是letter, 不是 I, 是“这封信通知我...", 而不是“我得到了通知............”;您的另一个例子Dressed in a blue uniform and with a rifle over his shoulder, the prisoner marched boldly up and down in front of the camp.中dressed 的逻辑主语就是the prisoner,所以用dreesed没有问题。
如果非要把informed 的逻辑主语变成I,正确的说法应该是:
Informed that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week, I decided to pay him a visit.
非常感谢您的回答,但是想纠正您一点,原句中informing不是做伴随状语的。。。伴随状语的逻辑主语是和主句主语一致的。你可能理解错了伴随状语的概念。我现在想用伴随状语,所以才要变成,informed that,让其逻辑主语变成I。类似于L82课的内容。
追答说错了informing me that 。。。应该是做定语,修饰letter的
追问我想把这句话变成是伴随状语的行吗?我被告知。。。。所以用,(and I am) informed that 可以吗?
追答可以的。这样就变成了并列句。