考研英语语法（三十四）

基本结构的长难句：

 简化两步走
        定位谓语动词（多个谓语动词，就是多件事情，要先断开）
        去扩展找核心（去掉非核心的扩展成分，一定要去掉完整的非核心部分，但是要保留连接词）
        例句
            The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilber as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009
                …… decision has been talk
            During the late 1990s,national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds---including government,higher education,non-profit and corporate---varied from around 4% to 25%……
                ……spending……varied
            Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face ,because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual fund assets
            A string of accidents,including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage,raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management---especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.
                A string of accidents,including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage,raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management
                    A string ……raised…… questions……
                ---especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.
                    ……after …… company made ……statements……（after作为连词，要留着，因为关系到句子的逻辑关系）
            As a discovery claim works its way through the community ,the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing（单个出现的doing 都是非谓语） beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discovery.
                As a discovery claim works its way through the community
                    As a discovery claim works its way
                        As……discovery claim works（努力）……way……
                the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing（单个出现的doing 都是非谓语） beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discovery.
                    the interaction and confrontation……transforms an individual's discovery claim……
                        ……interaction and confrontation ……transforms……discovery claim……
            Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
                Of all the changes that……,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
                    （Of all the changes that……，这个of 介词短语不能省略，因为如果省略了，就不知道that 从句修饰谁了）……the most far-reaching has been decline……
                 that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century
                    that have taken place……