【作文示范】
A Strange Letter
One afternoon my meighbour`s children were playing hide-and-seek outside the post-office. Finding that the letter-box had been left open, young Lan climbed into it and locked himself in. His sister, Janet, realized where he was hiding when she heard his cries so she ran to tell the postman. After letting him out, the postman made Lan stop crying by telling him that next time he wanted to hide in a letter-box he should remember to stick a stamp on himself. (80 words)
【写法指要】
原文问题后的括号内容要求缩写的文章中有一个“Finding that”开头的现在分词短语结构和两个“After letting… by telling”的介词＋动名词的短语结构。在写这两种结构的句子时要注意结构中的逻辑主语要与主句的主语一致，否则就会造成修辞上的错句悬垂修饰语，如把“After letting”结构写成“After letting him out, Lan was made to stop crying…”，前半部分就是悬垂修饰语，因为letting的主语不是Lan，而是postman。