附译林版高中《英语》教材文本:
Grammar and usage: Verb-ing forms as attributives, adverbials and object complements
Anna is reading an article about a website. Find the verb-ing forms in the table below. The first ones have been done for you.
A Exploring the rules
JustDance is a website belonging to all dance lovers. Fiona Lin, the lady running the website, had the idea after she watched her daughter dancing two years ago. It occurred to her that dance had a very positive effect on her daughter. “My daughter just loved her ballet classes. She always found dance relaxing after a long day at school,” she said. Fiona wanted to introduce more people to dance, so she set up JustDance. Over 300 users joined in the first month. Taking advantage of the site's great start, Fiona decided to add more content. Now users can find whatever they are interested in on the website—introductions to various styles of dancing, tips for dancing and videos on how to dance. The website welcomes inspiring stories from dance lovers about how they started dancing and how dance has changed their lives. There is also a forum where users can discuss all sorts of topics on dancing. More than 10,000 users visit JustDance on a regular basis. Having achieved such success, Fiona hopes to attract more users through other forms of new media. For example, she has requested a technical team to develop an app so as to satisfy different users' needs.
Verb-ing forms as attributives | a website belonging to all dance lovers |
Verb-ing forms as adverbials | Taking advantage of the site's great start |
Verb-ing forms as object complements | she watched her daughter dancing |
Working out the rules
· The verb-ing form can be used like an adjective or an adverb, indicating a(n) (1) ________ (active/passive) meaning.
· When the verb-ing form is used as an attributive, it often comes (2) _________ (before/after) the noun, but the verb-ing phrase used as an attributive is usually put (3) ________ (before/after) the noun.
· When used as an adverbial, the verb-ing form can express time, reason, purpose, result or condition.
· The verb-ing form can also be used as an object complement.