句子问题没必要转换.ppt

Confusing Shifts Confusing Shifts in Person 1. A driver should never race your motor without a warm-up 2. When I was in high school, you never knew what to expect They should be corrected in the same person 1. A driver should never race his motor without a warm-up 2. When I was in high school, I never know what to expected Special attention should be paid to the person of nouns and pronouns that refer to indefinite individuals or groups 3. A human being can never ignore your own feelings. A human being can never ignore his own feelings 4. It always seems to anyone that I will never die. It always seems to anyone that he will never die  Confusing Shifts Confusing Shifts in Person Also keep in mind the distinction between one that are often involved in faulty person shifts nd you, two pronouns Wrong: When one is sick, you dont want company. Then you are sick, you dont want company. When one are sick, one dont want company. hen one are sick, he dont want company.  Confusing Shifts Confusing Shifts in Tense A writer must be sure that changes in tense are based on real changes time: otherwise, the result is needless confusion 1)The photographer was changing film when the building shudders and The photographer was changing film when the building shuddered and collapsed. 2)I was extremely sorry you are injured I am extremely sorry you are injured Note: the historical present is generally used in literary writing If you start with the historical present, you should not lapse into the past tense  Confusing Shifts Confusing Shifts in Subject and voie A writer should never shift subjects in closely related clauses without good reason. Here is a sentence in which the subject changes unnecessarily Mike cannot keep orchids alive, but geraniums are easy for him to grow. The sentence should say Mike cannot keep orchids alive, but he finds it easy to grow geraniums Sticking to the same grammatical subject when possible will improve the clar