Seem的用法总结
5.在复数姓氏前加the,表示..一家人,常看成复数。如:the Browns。
6.在介词短语中常用定冠词the,如:in the box ,behind the chair。
7.不能用定冠词the的几个方面:
(1)在节日、星期、月份、季节、年等词前不用冠词。如:in summer, in August 请区别:in the spring of 1945. (这里表示特指,故加the)
(2)一日三餐和球类运动名不用冠词。如:have breakfast ,play football
(3)一些固定词组中,如:go to bed ,go to school, by bus ,at night.
8.在有些词组中,有冠词和无冠词意思不同,请注意区别:
in front of 在…前面, in the front of 在…范围内的前部
in hospital (生病)住院, in the hospital 在医院里。
冠词的省略
有时名词前无冠词,但并非不用冠词,而是省去了不定冠词和定冠词。在下列情况下冠词可省略。 避免重复 The lightning flashed and thunder crashed. 电闪雷鸣。(thunder 前省去 the。) The noun is the name of a person or thing. 名词是人或物的名称。(thing前省去a。) 可省去句首的定冠词 the Class is dismissed. 下课了。 Fact is that they do not know him. 事实是他们并不认识他。 在 the next day 等短语中,定冠词 常省去 Next day they went to London together early. 第二天,他们很早就一起到伦敦去了。 The circus is coming here next week. 马戏团下星期来这儿。 信函地址常省去定冠词或不定冠词
冠词的位置
1) 不定冠词位置
不定冠词常位于名词或名词修饰语前。注意:
a. 位于下列形容词之后:such,what,many,half,
I have never seen such an animal.
Many a man is fit for the job.
b. 当名词前的形容词被副词as,so,too,how,however,enough修饰时,不定冠词应放在形容词之后:
It is as pleasant a day as I have ever spent.
So short a time.
Too long a distance.
c. quite,rather与单数名词连用,冠词放在其后。
但当rather,quite 前仍有形容词,不定冠词放其前后均可。如:quite a lot
d. 在as,though 引导的让步状语从句中,当表语为形容词修饰的名词时,不定冠词放形容词后:
Brave a man though he is,he trembles at the sight of snakes. 他尽管勇敢,可见到蛇还是发抖。
当名词被比较级形容词修饰时,不定冠词通常置于比较级形容词之后。
2) 定冠词位置
定冠词通常位于名词或名词修饰语前,但放在all, both,double,half,twice,three times等词之后,名词之前。
All the students in the class went out. 班里的所有学生都出去了。
Both the boys have been to London. 两个男孩都去过伦敦。