Question

1 There were 2000 people p____ at the meeting yesterday.

2 The differences between British and American _____(spell) are slight

Answer 1

你好，同学，很高兴回答你的问题

才看到你发来的求助题，所以回答晚了些

正确答案：

1. presenting

即：There were 2000 people presenting at the meeting yesterday.

翻译：昨天有2000人出席了会议。

解析：presenting 是现在分词作后置定语，修饰people，用现在分词表示主动。

2. spelling

即：The differences between British and American spelling are slight.

翻译：英式拼写和美式拼写的区别很小。

解析：spelling 是动名词，拼写的意思

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追问

　　老师，第一个题的答案是present 我也认为是 there is/are sb doing sth 为什么？
第二个后是are，为什么不用spellings

追答

第一题中的present 是形容词，出席的，所以不用加ing，其实加ing也是对的，如果加ing，说明present是动词，要变成现在分词，不加ing，就是形容词。

第二题后面的谓语动词是are，是因为前面的differences是复数，这句话的主语是differences，而spelling只是比较状语而已，不用加s

Answer 2

There were 2000 people people at the meeting yesterday.
昨天的会议上有两千人。

The differences between British and American spelling are slight
英国英语和美国英语在拼写上区别很轻微。

Answer 3

There were 2000 people present at the meeting yesterday
The differences between British and American spelling are slight

Answer 4

playing
spelling

Answer 5

presenting,spelling