(2019年)I came to recognize various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
本句共48词,句子相对较长,句中只有一处标点隔开,导致整个句子结构较复杂。句子比较复杂是因为句子中包含了that引导的定语从句,定语从句中又嵌套一个宾语从句,宾语从句中又嵌套了两个定语从句,出现了从句多层嵌套的情况;此外后两个定语从句是通过一个比较结构连接,所以导致了整个句子结构相当复杂。
根据断句原则中的标点,可将句子整体断为2部分:
1. 句子主干:I came to recognize various signs of a bad paper
2. 同位语:the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
根据断句原则中的连词,可将句子2整体断为3部分
3. 同位语主干:the kind of paper
4. 同位语的定语从句修饰:that purports to show……
5. 定语从句中嵌套的宾语从句:that people ……were 1.17 times more likely than those ……. to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia
6. 宾语从句中嵌套的两个定语从句:who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week / who eat less