当分词结构跟在名词之后,会作为后置定语修饰名词,只要当做"……的"来理解就好,同时注意现在分词doing表示主动发出的动作,过去分词done则是被动含义。
The man wearing a hat is my neighbor.
I like the book written by that famous novelist.
Abu Hureyra was founded about 9500B.C,a small village settlement of cramped pit dwellings(houses dug partially in the soil)with reed roofs supported by wooden uprights.(TPO20-2)
The semiarid lands bordering the deserts exist in a delicate ecological balance and are limited in their potential to adjust to increased environmental pressures.(TPO2-1)
以上例句中我们讨论的是分词短语作后置定语的用法,实际上分词也可以单独使用,在名词之前作定语,以下就是几个简单的例子。
Glaciers may form in permanently cold areas,and these slowly moving masses of ice cut out valleys,carrying with them huge quantities of eroded rock debris.(OG-Geology and Landscape)