华慧考博-考博英语两个复杂句子的结构分析(二十四)
1. Mothers who had never heard of Darwin or Spencer raised their babies in ways consistent with the world views of these thinkers.
【结构分析】句子主干为:Mothers raised their babies;“who had never heard of Darwin or Spencer”为who引导的从句充当“Mothers”的后置定语;“in ways consistent with the world views of these thinkers”为方式状语,其中“consistent with the world views of these thinkers”为形容词短语充当“ways”的后置定语。
2. Youth culture happened because commerce understood that teenagers had money to spend and worked out ways of making them buy more records, clothes and concert tickets.
【结构分析】句子主干为:Youth culture happened;“because commerce understood that …clothes and concert tickets”为because引导的原因状语,其中“that teenagers had money to spend”为that引导的从句充当“understood”的宾语;“of making them buy more records, clothes and concert tickets”为介词of引导的短语充当“ways”的后置定语。