Question

关于英语语法的一道问题

单项选择：
Who____was coming to see me in my office this afternoon.
A.you said B.did you say
C.did you say that D.you did say.
选哪个 ，为什么

Answer 1

选A，这是含有主语从句的复合句，结构是：疑问词+主语+谓语+宾语，即疑问词后是陈述句语序

Answer 2

B.did you say

did you say 做插入语 不影响句子结构和时态
相当于 do you think的用法

追问

后面不可以接that吗？

追答

没有加入插入语前，句子是这样的
Who was coming to see me in my office this afternoon？就是平时的特殊疑问句

把插入语加进去之后，
Who did you say/ did you think was coming to see me in my office this afternoon?

这类句子一般都是把插入语忽略掉，来分析句子的，也就是说没有了插入语之后，这就是一个典型的特殊疑问句，Who was coming to see me in my office this afternoon
主语是who 谓语 was coming to see 宾语me 还有其他的状语 in my office this afternoon
这时候句子的成分已经完整了，不需要加上that

如果是这种情况， I thought sb. was going to see me in my office this afternoon. 则可以加that
I thought that sb. was going to see me in my office this afternoon. 因为这时候that引导出一个宾语从句，而引导词that是可以省略，也可以保留。