2008 Kaoyan English Grammar New Thinking New Oriental

Author: Zhang Mansheng (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book provides a detailed summary and of similar problem-solving breakthroughs and techniques. Most of the examples in the book are selected from postgraduate entrance examination () test papers from 1991 to 2007, with the aim of helping candidates summarize the key points of previous years. Additionally, the book nearly exhausts all difficult sentences in postgraduate English, accompanied by insightful explanations of problem-solving strategies and premium translations, offering numerous conveniences for candidates. Below, the specific features of the book are elaborated in detail:
1. Summarize past exam key points and provide insightful explanations of problem-solving strategies
For candidates, the purpose of studying and practicing past exam papers is to summarize knowledge points, grasp the trends of postgraduate entrance examinations, and discern the patterns of question-setting, ultimately improving their exam-taking skills. This is also the original intention of this book. Therefore, the book is organized around key points, integrating past exam questions, allowing candidates to clearly see the occurrence of the same key points in past exams. For example, the sentence patterns "no more...than" or "not...any more than" appear frequently in postgraduate English, commonly found in old grammar selection questions, but also in recent reading comprehension (e.g., the fourth passage in the 2005 reading section) and English-Chinese translation (e.g., question 49 in the 2006 English-Chinese translation section). Through such horizontal comparisons, candidates can quickly understand and master relevant key points, thus preparing for next year's exam. For content with concentrated key points, the book also summarizes and explains them in the form of "special topics," such as the specially designed "That Topic," "As Topic," and "Than Topic." Additionally, while summarizing key points, the book provides problem-solving strategies for each key point. For example, the above example clearly tells candidates "to understand what the relative pronoun 'which' refers to in a non-restrictive relative clause," meaning the key to correctly translating a relative clause is to identify the antecedent.
2. Exhaust all difficult sentences in postgraduate entrance examinations and analyze complex structures in detail
The analysis of difficult sentences is of great significance for postgraduate English. In a sense, postgraduate English is a process of analyzing and translating long and complex sentences, as there are numerous challenging sentences in cloze, reading comprehension, and English-Chinese translation sections. Therefore, a candidate's ability to analyze and understand difficult sentences directly affects their exam performance. However, despite the seemingly complex and varied English difficult sentences, their structures follow certain patterns. Chapter 11 of this book provides a detailed analysis of the patterns of difficult sentences: First, it explores the common techniques used in complex English sentences, primarily using conjunctions, prepositions, and participles to form sentences. Then, it lists various practical techniques for analyzing difficult sentences, such as "identifying parallel structures in sentences" and "paying attention to the reference of pronouns in sentences." Finally, it summarizes various difficult sentence structures, such as three types of "object postposition" difficult sentence structures, the order of multiple postpositive attributive modifiers in English, and the ellipsis and inversion structures in English, and so on.
3. Premium translations for your appreciation, helping you conquer "English-Chinese translation"
Most examples in this book are selected from postgraduate entrance examination test papers, with sentence structures similar in difficulty to those in the postgraduate "English-Chinese translation" section. Moreover, almost every difficult sentence provides translation techniques in the "Insightful Explanations," such as the above example, which clearly tells readers to use "this viewpoint" to correspond to the relative pronoun "which." Then, the "Premium Translations" provide the translated versions, which are carefully organized and meticulously polished, making them authoritative and excellent translations. Here, I suggest readers first attempt to translate each example sentence on their own, then compare their translations with the provided versions to identify their shortcomings. This will undoubtedly help them learn more translation techniques and lay a stronger foundation for the postgraduate "English-Chinese translation" section.
In summary, the greatest feature of this book is that it truly enables candidates to "apply what they learn" and "gain what they apply," making problem-solving as effortless as picking something from a bag. Therefore, this grammar book is not simply a list of grammar rules but a practical guide that truly helps you conquer the "postgraduate entrance examination."