表语
表语是用来说明主语的身份、性质、品性、特征和状态的成分。
①That remains a puzzle to me.
②The sun is up.
插入语
在一个句子中间插入的一个成分,不作句子的何种成分,也不和句子的何种成分发生结构关系,同时既不起连接作用,也不表示语气,这样的成分是插入语。
①One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was something.
②The success of the Colorado beetle in infesting potatoes, for example, seems to be correlated with its high tolerance to alkaloids.
定语
定语是用来修饰、限定、说明名词或代词的品质与特征的成分。
①In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events.
②Possible solutions to the problem are formulated.
连接词
连接词是连接短语或子句的句子成分。
①That is, they become diseased and die.
②The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid-1940's and became a flood by 1950.
同位语
一个名词(或其它形式)对另一个名词或代词进行修饰,限定或说明,这个名词(或其它形式)就是同位语。
①A new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.
②Most of them range in size from $5,000 to $12,500, a welcome sum to many young practitioners.
系动词
本身有词义,但不能单独用作谓语,后边必须跟表语,构成系表结构说明主语的状况、性质、特征等情况。
①That is air wrung dry of moisture.
②There seem to have been several periods within the last tens of thousands of years.
主语
主语是句子陈述的对象,说明是谁或什么,表示句子说的是"什么人"或"什么事"。
①My school is not far from my house.
②To do such a job needs more knowledge.
状语
状语是谓语里的另一个附加成分,从情况、时间、处所,方式、条件、对象,肯定、否定、范围和程度等方面对谓语中心(或者整个句子)进行修饰或限制。
①In a way, any hypothesis is a leap into the unknown.
②It extends the scientist's thinking beyond the known facts.