(E) 公共建筑、机关的名称: The Ritz Hotel; the Ministry of Education; (F) 国民的总称: the French; the Japanese; the Chinese;
(G) 用在姓氏的复数前指其全家人: The Chens will move to the country. 3. 冠词的省略:
(1) 称呼语之前不加冠词。 Waiter, bring my bill, please.
(2) 家庭称谓如父母兄弟前不加冠词,甚至佣人也都不需加冠词。 Father is out, but Mother is at home. Cook has made mince-pies for Christmas. (3) 三餐名称前不加冠词。
Come to dinner (breakfast, lunch) with me. (4) 运动、游戏、颜色、感官的名词前不加冠词。 He likes basketball. White is a beautiful color. Do you play bridge?
Sight is one of the five senses.
(5) 表官职、身份或亲属关系的名词当补语,或作同位语时不加冠词。 He was elected president. George Ⅵ, King of England.
(6) School; church; hospital等字,指原有的用途时不加冠词,若指建筑物本身或场所时,则要加冠词。
School begins at eight. (school作抽象名词用) The school stands on the hill. (school指建筑物) (7) 两个相对的名词并用时不加冠词。
Arm in arm; day by day; man to man; young and old; 副词 (四)(Red修饰Blue) 1. 副词的用法:
(1) 修饰动词: He works hard. He speaks slowly. (2) 修饰形容词: The flower is very beautiful. (3) 修饰其他副词: He works very hard.
(4) 修饰名词: Even a child (or Even he) can do it. (5) 修饰全句: Probably he will come back.
(6) 修饰副词片语: He came exactly at two o’clock. (7) 修饰副词子句: He started soon after we came. 2. 副词的位置
(1) 副词修饰形容词、副词(片语或子句)时,通常放在前面。 The mountain is very beautiful.
He came long before the appointed time. (2) 修饰动词的副词
不及物动词 + 副词 She speaks well.
及物动词 + 受词 + 副词 She speaks English well.
(3) 表确定时间或场所的副词, 通常放在句首或句末, 放在句首时语气较强。
She was born in Taipei in 1948.
(4) always, never, often, sometimes, usually等频率副词的位置。 (A) 在一般动词前: They always say so.
(B) 有动词be时,在be动词后: I am always busy.
(C) 有助动词时, 在助动词和本动词间: This job will never be finished.
(5) 置于句首修饰全句: Fortunately he succeeded in the examination. (6) 同类两个以上的副词须依 (单位较小者 + 单位较大者) 的顺序排列。 He lives at Taichung, in Taiwan, Republic of China.
(7) 有两个以上不同种类的副词修饰语时, 其顺序为: 地点+状态+次数+时间。
She arrived there safely the other day. 3. 时间副词
(1) Time“时候”: 可以用作when的答语, 如: late ( = at a late time), now ( = at this time), presently (= at the present time), then ( = at that time), just, nowadays, today, etc.
I’ve just heard that you are leaving us. ( = at this very moment) Nowadays, many teenagers have long hair. ( = at the present time) 注: 两个以上表时间的副词须依“单位小的时间+单位大的时间”排列。 I’ll see you at nine on Monday.
(2) Duration“期间” : 用来作how long的答语,如:
momentarily, temporarily, for many weeks, long, from May till August, etc.
Has he been ill long? Yes, he has been ill since the end of May. He was away from school (for) four or five weeks.
(3) Frequency“频率”: 用来作how often的答语,可分两种:
(A) 非限定频率:always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, ever, etc. The sun always rises in the east. My brother rarely writes to me. (B) 限定频率:daily, hourly, monthly, annually, twice, everyday, once, etc.
I have been in Singapore once.
We have English lessons every other day.
注:以上三种时间副词在一起时,其顺序为“期间+频率+时间”。 I was there for a day or so every year during my childhood. 注: Seldom, rarely, never等有否定意义的频率副词置于句首,要将助动词或be动词放在主词之前。
Seldom do we hear such fine singing from school choirs. 4.地方副词: 表示where?的副词,也包括“动态方向”的副词,如: below, by, down, elsewhere, far, here, home, in, locally, near, off, opposite, out, around, away, back, outward(s), right, sideway(s), upward(s), etc.
(1) 地方副词通常置于句尾,加强语气时可放在句首。 He lives in a small village. They are not there.
(2) 两个地放副词并列时,地方确定的副词在后面,地方不确定的副词在前面。
The children running around upstairs.
(3) 两个以上的地方副词须依“小地方+大地方”的顺序排列。 Many people eat in restaurants in London. 5. 几个特殊副词的用法: (1) enough, too,
(A) enough放在所修饰的形容词和副词后面; too放在形容词和副词前面。 She’s old enough to do some work. She’s too old to do any work.
(B) too...to + 动词“太?而不能”, enough to + 动词“足够可以”(= so...that)
I am too poor to afford such extravagance.
= I am so poor that I cannot afford such extravagance. You are rich enough to keep a maid.
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