Question

3. If you ask people to name one person who had the greatest effect on the English language,you will get answers like “Shakespeare”, “Samuel Johnson”，and “Webster”，but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English- William the Conqueror. [句子分析]        

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Answer 1

3. [分析]此句是并列复合句，由but连接两个分句。

but前有一个条件状语从句，but后为一个单句，单句里又有一个who引导的定语从句。

[译文]如果你让人们说出对英语语言影响最大的一个人，你会得到像"莎士比亚"、"塞缪尔•约翰逊"和"韦伯斯特"这样的答案，但这些人中没有一个比得上甚至不讲英语的征服者威廉。