定语从句与后置定语

后置定语与定语从句

英语中的后置定语往往可以分为以下几类，形容词做后置定语，现在分词做后置定语，过去分词做后置定语，不定式作后置定语。而后置定语往往可以由定语从句演变而来，这种定语从句的关系词往往是关系代词在从句中充当主语。下面我们来逐一讨论：

1. 现在分词作后置定语

⑴Who is the girl dancing with your brother？（现在分词作后置定语，表正在）可改写成定语从句Who is the girl that is dancing with your brother？ The high building being built (=which is being built)there is meant for the old without children. It is expected to be finished in a year.(正在被建)

⑵Anyone touching the wire will get a shock.可以改成定语从句Anyone who touches the wire will get a shock.

2. 过去分词做后置定语

The jewelry (which is) worn by the Indians was made of bones.

The spaceship (which was) called Shenzhou Ⅴ, was carrying China’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei. The Indians wearing (=who wore)jewelry (which）

was) made of bones greeted them warmly.

3. 不定时作后置定语

表示未发生或即将发生的`情况如

The project （which is）to be completed next month needs more people to help.（即将完成的）

There are more pains (which are)to come.(要来的)

Children who lived closest to the Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station were among the first to be tested.（the first，the last之后常用不定式作定语）

4. 形容词作后置定语

She is an American girl interested in sports.

I am a person optimistic about everything hard in life