6) Although he’s tall, he isn’t a very good basketball player.
7) If we had your support, we might succeed in performing our task.
8) Even if there were air and water, plants still couldn’t grow on the moon.
9) If you don’t work hard, you will accomplish nothing.
10) If it had not been for their assistance, he would have found himself in trouble.
2. 起伴随或补充说明作用的从句、简单句或并列谓语往往可以改写为“with +名词+分词/形容词/介词词组”的结构作状语。
1) They wear layers of clothes even in summer time. Newspapers are stuffed between the layers as further protection against bad weather.
2) If more people help them, they probably will be able to accomplish the task ahead of time.
3) As all his savings were gone, he started to look for a job.
4) In the corner there is a table. One of its legs is shorter than the others.
5) When the job was finished, we went to the seaside for a holiday.
6) As the pace of change is quickening, more and more scientists find it hard to keep up with the latest developments even in their own disciplines.
7) She looked in my face and tears streamed down her cheeks.
3. 还有另外一些从句或简单句也可以改写为介词词组作状语。
1) She won’t go home until she has taken the exam.
2) Because he had a bad leg, he couldn’t walk as fast as the others.
3) We are full aware that the situation is serious.
4) She hurried back to school for fear that she miss too many lessons.
5) We should not criticize Susan for what she has done. Instead, we ought to praise her for it.
6) Helen did not go straight home after school. She went to work as a waitress in a restaurant.