問題
括弧内から適する語を選びなさい.
- (1) There (is / was / being / been) no school, I slept until eleven o’clock.
- (2) The old man was sitting there with his legs (cross / crossing / crossed).
- (3) (Because / It being / They being / Be) Monday, the library was closed.
解説
括弧内から適する語を選びなさい.
- (1) There (being) no school, I slept until eleven o’clock.
- 前後で主語の異なる場合の分詞構文は, 接続詞のみが省略され, “[主語1] [現在分詞/過去分詞] 〜, [主語2] [動詞] 〜“という語順になります.
- (2) The old man was sitting there with his legs (crossed).
- “with [名詞] [分詞]”で”〜しながら／したまま〜する”という意味になり,(テキストでは”付帯状況のwith“とされていたりもします)この問題では, 脚は”組まれる”ので, 過去分詞になります.
- (3) (It being) Monday, the library was closed.
- “月曜日だった”は”it was Monday”になるので, 分詞構文にすると, “it being Monday”が残ります.
