1.并列句
并列句指在语意上对等的两个或两个以上的、由连接词连接起来的分句。并列句内各分句之间可构成同等、条件、因果、结果、转折、对比和让步等关系。连接词通常有and,but,or,while,yet,however,so,therefore,for等。因此,对于这类句子,首先要找到连接词,同时弄清各分句之间是什么关系,然后根据语境和句际关系正确理解句意。例如:
Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping,baby-size holes in their lives.