everybody except john was able to answer ..able是形容词,他修饰谁?to在这里什么意思

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everybody except john was able to answer ..able是形容词,他修饰谁?to在这里什么意思

be able to do sth系短语,表示能做某事

ABLE TO DO SOMETHING
这是固定用法哦~~~

把was able to看成是一个短语助动词,就说was able to = could 那么,could answer就好理解了吧 .to在这里是动词不定式符号.able是形容词,它不修饰谁.讲得再通俗一些:was是逻辑上的系动词,理解为“是”吧;able是逻辑...