The next thing he saw was smoke rising from behind the house
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这句话首先应该分清句子结构:

主语:the next thing 系动词:was 表语:smoke 即系表结构;

he saw 做主语的后置定语,可看做省略掉了that 的后置定语从句,即 the next thing that he saw;先行词that指代the next thing,做定语从句中saw的宾语;

rising from behind the house做表语smoke的后置定语.

对于这种长句子,首先找出主要动词很重要,理清结构再进行分析,句子就不再那么复杂了.