考研英语作文中“逗号十二剑法”

　　第九剑法：连接性状语的使用

　　1. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.

　　2. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledged that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.

　　3. By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way.

　　4. And perhaps the most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy.

　　5. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails.

　　6. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chretien and Koizumi)

　　7. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

　　8. However, the squirrels are not entirely gung-ho; although rattlesnakes rarely eat adults, a fight could easily lead to death or serious injury.

　　连接性状语(Conjunct)通常由连接副词﹑解说副词以及介词词组表示。就词汇意义来说，连接性状语可以分为：表示意义增补和引申的连接性状语，如例4，例6 和例7;表示结果的连接性状语，如例1;表示意义让步的连接性状语，如例8;表示意义转折的连接性状语，如例2和例3;表示时间过渡的连接性状语，如例5。

　　第十剑法：介词或介词词组使用

　　1. With a small team of student researchers and a technician, she monitors how well carbon filters at the treatment plants keep foul odors from spewing into the air.

　　2. Like a modern-day Edison, she has experimented with an odd assortment of materials to make the best filter.

　　3. Instead of the “information worker”, says Mr.Fink, he is targeting the” transaction worker’.

　　4. Unlike rich countries, which have a huge installed base of Windows computers and billions of documents in Microsoft’s fiddly file formats, most users in Asia and south America are starting with a clean slate.

　　5. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular adviser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promote of his advertisements.

　　采用单个介词或复合介词引导名词性成分(名词﹑代词﹑动名词﹑what 从句等)连接逗号前后的两大部分，使句式结构富有起伏感(如例1-4)。一般来说，介词后面不能直接句子(what 从句除外)，如果要接句子，一般需要在介词后加上名词fact, conclusion, plan, suggestion, advice, proposal 等词再用连词that 引导同位语从句(如例5)。