It is high time ...V-past tense
useful sentence patterns for suggestion form
1. I propose/suggest/recommend...+ subject+ bare infinitive
e.g. I suggest the school introduce some new games.
2. I (would) suggest+gerund
e.g I (would)suggest introducing some new games.
3. It would be sensible/advantageous/beneficial + to-infintive or if+past tense
e.g. It would be sensible to introduce some new games.
It would be beneficial if we introduced some new games.
4. Subject+clearly has the responsibility + to-infinitive
e.g. Our school clearly has the responsibility to introduce new games.
5. It is (high/about) time + [subject + past tense]/[for+subject+to-infinitive]
e.g. It is high time our school introduced some new games for our students.
(reference: http://www.nani.com.tw/slearn/sleng/eng_d/Chapter04/Chapter04_5.htm)
6. Subject+ could/might consider +gerund
e.g. Our school might consider introducing some new games.
7. If possible, I do hope that +subject + verb+ object
e.g. If possible, I do hope that our school could introduce some new games.
8. Gerund + would be an excellent idea.
e.g. Introducing some new games would be an excellent idea.
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It would be a good idea to ..
Example 1
Question:
Below is a suggestion form to the Environmental Protection Club in your school. Give your opinion about ways to conserve the following resources:
n Energy
n Water
n Paper and other materials
Sample answer:
Ways to Conserve Resources
1. Energy
It would be a good idea to switch off electrical appliances of classrooms that are not in use. For example, lights, air-conditioners, and fans. Also, it is suggested that fans should be used instead of air-conditioners when the temperature is below 25 degrees Celsius. Or, we may open the windows for ventilation if it is not too hot.
2. Water
After washing their hands, students should make sure that no water is dripping or running down from the tap. This saves unnecessary water waste. Of course, students should never splash water in washrooms.
3. Paper and other materials
I recommend that students use single-sided paper for informal uses like making drafts. Also, students should not overuse paper towels after washing their hands. Or, if possible, students may use the hand dryers instead.
n Example 2
Question:
More and more students at your school are getting fat. Concerned about this situation, your school Principal is inviting ideas from students to help tackle the obesity problem. You decide to fill in a suggestion form, proposing three solutions.
Sample answer:
Suggestion form
I would like to make the following suggestions.
1. Banning unhealthy food from schools
Banning unhealthy food from school tuck shop is the first step in preventing obesity crisis among students. Junk food such as fried chicken wings and crisps leads to obesity because it is high in calories. Therefore,the tuck shop should stop selling them immediately.
2. Establishing a fitness club
Most students lack regular exercise because they prefer surging the internet to playing sports. To entice less sportive students to do exercise, I suggest setting up a fitness club which arranges various types of fat-burning classes, for example, cardio kick-boxing,aerobics, and high-temperature yoga.
3. Setting up a healthy food club
It would be a brilliant idea to set up a healthy food club which aims at promoting a healthy eating habit. To achieve this, it can hold seminars on food and nutrition and help design a healthy school lunch menu.
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when it comes to
sentence structure for opening an article
1. 對立法
a)
When asked about.....
most/many/quite a few (people/students) say that....
People say/think/believe/answer that....
But other people regard/view/see/think of...as ...
I think/view quite/a bit differently.
eg. When asked about the biggest problem today, many people say that it is the serious energy crisis. They are afraid that the world will soon run out of oil and food. But other people hold optimistic views: they regard it as a natural result of technological development and believe it will be only solved with further advances in economy and technology.
b) When it comes to... [http://www.iciba.com/When_it_comes_to]
Some people think/believe that...
Others argue/claim that the opposite/reverse it true. There is probably some truth in both arguments/statements,
but......
eg. When it comes to international sports such as the Olympics Games and the World Cup soccer game, some people believe that it creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympics Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood.
2. 現象法
Recently, the rise in /phenomenon of/problem of....
has drawn/aroused/caused/
public/popular/grave/world-wide/wide/general
attention/concern.
....
eg. Recently, the alarm about the problem of the use of genetic technologies on human beings has caused wide public concern. With the nuclear crisis threatening the world and with so many other technological advances visibly damaging to the quality of life, who would wish to have scientists tampering with man's inner nature? Indeed, fear of such manipulation may arouse even more anxiety than fear of death.
3. 問題法
Should/what...............................?
Opinions of/Attitudes toward...................vary widely/greatly/from person to person.
Some think of /regards/view......................as.................
Others argue/believe/claim..................
eg. Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients-to speed recovery or to conceal the approach of death? People's attitude toward the doctor's lie varies from person to person. SOme see important reasons to lie for the patient's own sake; others think that truthful information should not be denied or distorted. But in medicine as in law, government and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs: the need to shelter from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to expose corruption or to promote the public interest.
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THere is a heated debate
好，我想用一句句構打響頭炮，就是There is + a/an+ (adj)+Noun+ preposition+noun phrase，例子有：There is a general discussion on the campus today over the phenomena of college or high school student’doing a part-time job. （在今日校園裡有一個普遍的，有關高中或大學生從事兼職工作的現象的討論。）
句子變化：在這種句構裡，There is是不變的，變的是緊跟著的那個名詞。名詞之前可以有加強語氣的形容詞，例如上句例句中的general（廣泛的），同義詞有wide，也可用big/huge（很大）；debate的形容詞配搭還有highly-charged(激烈的)。隨後的介詞取決於那是什麼名詞，但通常也不離開about，on，或over；介詞後的名詞詞組(noun phrase)當然與作文題目有關，篇篇不同。
而這個名詞加介詞詞組除了a discussion之外，可以是： a controversy over（有關…的爭議），例句：There was a (huge) controversy over the anti-discrimination law. (有關反歧視法例，有很大的爭議。)還有debate（辯論）和contention（爭論）。
另外一個可用的名詞是concern，解「關注」，例如：There is a wide concern about the Chinese mainland tourists’behavior in the public area of Hong Kong. （有關中國內地旅客在香港的公眾地方的行為，有廣泛的關注。）concern的形容詞配搭還有ongoing（持續的）。
大家可能有留意到我的中文翻譯句子好像怪怪的，其實因為中英文的句子結構不同，英文的句子，好像沒有主詞，但其實主詞只是隱藏了，而沒顯示出來時卻又不會不合文法；但中文句子若沒有主詞，則好像不合文法的。因此，若認真要翻譯，我以上一段的句子為例，我會加上社會上在後一句句子前，即：有關中國內地旅客在香港的公眾地方的行為，社會上有廣泛的關注。
大家可能會問，為何英文的主詞可以隱藏起來？在此我不想太複雜地討論，因為事實上這句英文句子的主詞是存在的，就是A wide concern about …的詞組，而中文翻譯句子的主詞實際上也不是「社會上」，而是「人們」，而且反而是隱藏了的。但這樣的翻譯分析不是本人這個博客的關注。我應該說，上一句例句的中文翻譯的副詞是漏了，所以聽上來怪怪的，而「社會上」則是填補了的副詞；英文的副詞沒有漏，就是there，there就是in the society(社會上)的代詞。如果覺得不清楚，可以加上in the society在最後，即是：There is a wide concern about the Chinese mainland tourists’ behavior in the public area of Hong Kong in the society，雖然這in the society有點多餘，因為從前文後理讀者也知道關注是存在「社會上」。
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it is no use + gerund
It is no use crying over spilled milk.
參考: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1826684
留意，不是There is no use...
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It is customary for
It is customary for the women to sit apart . 按習俗，婦女要分開坐
you're customarily not expected to pay.
按照慣例
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it is adj that
2014年2月11日星期二
It is crucial that ....
[+ that] It is crucial that the problem is tackled immediately.
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it v. that
It seems that
用于it seems (appears) that…句式。如：
It seems that he knows everything. 他好像什么都知道。
It appears that we may be mistaken. 看来我们可能弄错了。
但是，英语一般不说it looks that…，可改用it looks as if…。如：
It looks as if we’ll be late. 我们似乎要迟到了。
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it follows that…句式。
it follows that…句式。如：
He is wrong, but it does not follow thatyou are right. 他错了，但并不能由此推断你是对的。
She’s not in the office but it doesn’t necessarily follow that she’s ill. 她不在办公室, 并不见得就是病了。
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(It is) no wonder( that) …
(It is) no wonder( that) …
It’s no wonder he is not hungry; he has been eating sweets all day. 难怪他不饿，他整天在吃糖果。
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it struck sb that...句式
it struck sb that...句式
It struck sb that…是英语中一个很有用的句式，其意为“某人突然感到（觉得）……”。句首的 it 可视为形式主语。如：
It struck me that she had come to borrow money. 我忽然想起她是来借钱的。
It struck her that she ought to make a new plan. 她突然想起她应当拟一个新计划。
It struck me that nobody was in favour of the change. 我突然感到没有人赞成这种改变。
有时也和一般现在时。如：
It strikes me Jim is a nice lad. 我觉得吉姆是一个好小伙子。
类似的还有：It occurred to him that…。如：
It suddenly occurred to him that this was an act he could never do. 他突然想到这是他绝不能做的一件事。
注意，有时用于否定句。如：
It never occurred to her to ask anyone. 她从未想到问问他人。
source: http://www.yygrammar.com/Article/200910/1417.html
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It happens that...“碰巧……”
It happened that…是英语中一个很有用的句式，其意为“碰巧……”。句首的 it 可视为形式主语。如：
It happened that the ferry service was canceled. 碰巧渡船服务取消了。
It happened that her parents were both out. 有时刚好她父母会同时不在家。
It happened that the harvest was bad that year. 恰好那年收成不好。
It happened that I had driven that kind of car before. 碰巧我过去曾开过那种汽车。
It happened that I was standing next to him when he collapsed. 他倒下的时候我恰巧站在他旁边。
类似的结构还有：it chanced that…。如：
It chanced that the man was a doctor. 那男人碰巧是位医生。
It chanced that she was in when he called. 他打电话时碰巧她在家。
It happened / chanced that she spoke fluent Swahili. 偏巧她很会说斯瓦希里语。
为加强语气，so 常与 happen / chance 连用。如：
It so happened / chanced that I’d met her a few years before. 碰巧我几年前见过她。
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2014年2月7日星期五
It goes without saying that
肯定地..
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2014年1月26日星期日
It occurred to sb that ...
本單元的提供同學表達「突然暸解」「突然領悟」的各種表達方式。
It occurs to me that…
occur 為「發生」之意，occur to則是「使想起」「在心中出現」的意思。
e.g. It never occurred to me that my friends spoke ill behind my back.
我怎麼也沒想到我的朋友會在背後說我的壞話。
e.g. Crossing the park, I noticed that the tree leaves were turning gold. It occurred to me that the autumn has come.
當我走過公園，我注意到樹葉已經變成金黃色。我突然明白原來已經秋天了。
e.g. It did not occur to her that his kind gesture could be taken as a flattering act.
她沒有想到她表示善意卻被當成拍馬屁。
It crosses my mind that…
e.g. When I was playing the piano last night, it crossed my mind that piano is my lifelong passion.
昨晚當我在彈鋼琴時，突然間我暸解，鋼琴是我終生的熱愛。
e.g. An idea crossed my mind that I might as well pay a visit to my elementary school teachers; they would be very delighted to see me.
我突然想到，我應當多去探訪小學老師，他們見到我應該會很高興。
e.g. An old friend crossed my mind several times today, so I decided to give him a phone call.
source: http://news.sina.com.tw/books/know/barticle/3314.html
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2014年1月3日星期五
It dawned on me that...
When the day dawns, it happens slowly, --as darkness disappears and sunlight slowly pervades all around.
In the same way, when the meaning of some statement or some truth slowly becomes clear to you, you may say, "Then it dawned on me... that she was not my freind, she was cheating me, I am actually being tricked, !" etc.
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