今天我们来分析下面这个病句:
The bike and its rider who had run over an old man were taken to the police station.
首先,我们来看这个句子的意思。这句话要表示的意思是――撞到那位老人的车和人都被带到了派出所。
接下来,我们分析这个句子的结构。总的看来,这是一个含有定语从句的复合句。主语是:the bike and its rider(单车和汽车的人),谓语是were taken to the police station。在主语和谓语中间的who had run over an old man是定语从句修饰先行词bike和rider。
一个定语从句同时修饰2个先行词。在这句话中,bike是指代物,而rider是指代人,两者在定语从句中都做主语,指代“人”的关系代词可以用“that”或者是“who”,指代“物”的关系代词可以用“which”或者是“that”。那么这里又有人又有物,我们就要选择that,而我们的病句中使用的是who。
因此,我们今天分析的病句的正确表述为:
The bike and its rider that had run over an old man were taken to the police station.