不断有读者来信提问如何判断先行词。的确,正确理解定语从句的关键就是“找到先行词”。这是因为只有先正确找出先行词,才能明白定语从句修饰的对象是什么,才能正确理解句子前后各部分的逻辑关系、理清句子结构,从而正确理解句意。我之前已经讲过判断先行词的一些方法(可参见本刊2017年2月号《名师点 There have been letters from readers asking how to judge antecedents. Indeed, the key to a proper understanding of attributive clauses is to find an antecedent. This is because only by correctly identifying the antecedent can we understand what is the object of the attributive clause modification and correct understanding of the logical relationship between the parts of the sentence and the sentence structure so as to understand the sentence meaning correctly. I’ve talked about some ways of judging antecedents (see our February 2017 issue of "