新概念三第五课的一个句子

084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president'However.
倒数第四个单词为什么前面没有are？, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he imformed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1;s palace？是单纯的过去式吗？

单纯过去式。palace是被wall包围。你可以改成一个被动式比较好理解。

fearing 做伴随状语，如果用fear应是but she feared that。but 是个连词，后面不能加动词原形。