九剑法：连接性状语的使用
1. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.
2. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledged that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
3. By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way.
4. And perhaps the most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy.
5. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails.
6. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chretien and Koizumi)
7. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
8. However, the squirrels are not entirely gung-ho; although rattlesnakes rarely eat adults, a fight could easily lead to death or serious injury.
连接性状语(Conjunct)通常由连接副词﹑解说副词以及介词词组表示。就词汇意义来说，连接性状语可以分为：表示意义增补和引申的连接性状语，如例4，例6 和例7;表示结果的连接性状语，如例1;表示意义让步的连接性状语，如例8;表示意义转折的连接性状语，如例2和例3;表示时间过渡的连接性状语，如例5。
第十剑法：介词或介词词组使用
1. With a small team of student researchers and a technician, she monitors how well carbon filters at the treatment plants keep foul odors from spewing into the air.
2. Like a modern-day Edison, she has experimented with an odd assortment of materials to make the best filter.
3. Instead of the “information worker”, says Mr.Fink, he is targeting the” transaction worker’.
4. Unlike rich countries, which have a huge installed base of Windows computers and billions of documents in Microsoft’s fiddly file formats, most users in Asia and south America are starting with a clean slate.
5. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular adviser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promote of his advertisements.
采用单个介词或复合介词引导名词性成分(名词﹑代词﹑动名词﹑what 从句等)连接逗号前后的两大部分，使句式结构富有起伏感(如例1-4)。一般来说，介词后面不能直接句子(what 从句除外)，如果要接句子，一般需要在介词后加上名词fact, conclusion, plan, suggestion, advice, proposal 等词再用连词that 引导同位语从句(如例5)。
第十一剑法：状语从句的使用
1. Wall Street peddled NASDAQ and tech-stock products like crazy, even though it was the worst possible time for investors to buy them.
2. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth.
3. If William Shakespeare were working today on Broadway or in London’s West End, he would be spending a lot of time with lawyers.
4. Speech recognition software is also included, Dietterich said, so that the outgoing side of each conversation can be recorded and retrieved as another aid to performing the task at hand.
5. When grandmas were cashing in CDs to buy tech funds six years ago, it was time for the rest of us to clear out.
6. It’s one thing to take the dollar into account when you’re making investment decisions, just as you should think about things like interest rates.
7. Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly.
采用状语从句连接逗号前后的主句和从句也是写作中常用的句法结构。状语从句根据主句与从句的逻辑关系又可具体细分为时间状语从句(如例5)，目的状语从句(如例2和例4)，方式状语从句(如例6)，条件状语从句(如例3)，让步状语从句(如例1)，原因状语从句(如例7)。
第十二剑法：递进重复结构的使用
1. In closing, and pure simplicity, zoos are so much fun, fun for the animals of course.
2. Applause of cheerful roars and howls fill the zoo with hope, hope to see a brighter tomorrow.
3. We all love peace, peace all over the world.
4. Now came the experience, the experience that I believe to be far commoner with women writers than with men.
5. To speak without figure she had thought of something, something about the body, about the passions which it was unfitting for her as a woman to say.
重复关键词，在语义上逗号后面部分具体说明﹑补充或进一步引申﹑递进逗号前面部分的内容，而不是文字上简单的重复。
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