托福寫作復合句的使用技巧

　　Some people like to record their life by sharing pictures and other information on social networking sites. Others keep this information to themselves and never share it online. Which do you prefer?

　　有一位同學其中一段的觀點是，通過在社交網(wǎng)站上分享個人信息，人們可以更好的留存自己的記憶。其中例子部分他時這樣寫的：

　　Last year is my parents' 20th anniversary of marriage. I gave them CDs and photos as gift. These CDs and photos are collected from their Facebook home pages. After receiving my gift, they were deeply impressed.

　　可以看出，這個段落犯了許多同學容易犯的問題——依然是簡單句的大量堆砌。然而，想要把這段文字改正比較好的復合句，其實并不難，首先我們要從每一句話在這個例子中所起的作用是什么：

　　Last year is my parents' 20th anniversary of marriage. 這句說的是時間發(fā)生的時間

　　I gave them CDs and photos as gift. 這是整件事的核心。

　　These CDs and photos are collected from their Facebook home pages. 這是對禮物的句子描述，也就是定語。

　　After receiving my gift, they were deeply impressed. 這句說的是時間發(fā)生之后的結果。

　　這樣分析就非常簡單了，只要把每一個部分起到的作用后面加上“從句”兩個字，這個句子的改寫方法就呼之欲出了。

　　Last year is my parents' 20th anniversary of marriage.可以改成時間狀語從句，加上when

　　I gave them CDs and photos as gift.不變

　　These CDs and photos are collected from their Facebook home pages.可改成定語從句，加上which

　　After receiving my gift, they were deeply impressed.可改成結果狀語從句，也可以選擇用非謂語動詞表示結果。

　　把這些句子重新組合在一起，就可以這樣寫：

　　For instance, when it comes to my parents' 20th anniversary of marriage last year, I gave them CDs and photos, which were collected from their Facebook home pages, as gift, impressing them deeply.

　　由此我們可以看出，只需要適當?shù)男薷?，剛才還是簡單句的羅列，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為了比較規(guī)范的復合句。自然這些句子還可以寫得更好，如可以選擇更貼切的詞匯。但對于許多還不習慣使用復合句的學生而言，這已經(jīng)是符合ETS要求的規(guī)范的句式。