The thief, who was about to escape, was caught by the police.小偷正要逃跑时，被警察抓住了。This translation is a good example of syntactic accommodation.
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- The thief, who was about to escape, was caught by the police.小偷正要逃跑时，被警察抓住了。This translation is a good example of syntactic accommodation. A: 正确 B: 错误
- __________ the thief ______ by the police. A: Has, been caught B: Was, been caught C: Has, caught
- What happened to the shop in one month A: The police caught the thief within three months. B: The police had still not managed to catch the thief three weeks later. C: The police caught the thief three weeks later.
- ______ police caught ______ thief in the shop. A: A; a B: A; the C: The; a
- The police found the thief _________ . A: escape B: escapes C: to escaping D: escaped