a English question about grammarThe body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth centruy B.C.这句话中怎么有两个动词was,date from,却没有从句呢?
问题描述：
a English question about grammar
The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth centruy B.C.
这句话中怎么有两个动词was,date from,却没有从句呢?
答
英语中,我们可以用从句起到修饰一个名词的作用,即定语从句.但如果我们不想使用从句,则可以使用动词的非谓语形式来起到修饰的作用:比如本句话,dating from the fifteenth century B.C.是一个现在分词短语,修饰remains(废墟）.如果改用从句来修饰这个词,可改为remains which dated from the fifteenth century B.C.