大学英语课外辅导:英语修饰语顺序浅谈 |
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在英语表达中如果对人或物只用一个词修饰时,通常把修饰语放在被修饰语前面(有时需放在后面,另外讨论)即可。如果使用两个或两个以上修饰语就要考虑它们的顺序。了解和掌握修饰语的顺序对理解和使用英语,说出或写出有层次感、立体感和丰富内涵的句子是很有帮助的。综合数位英语专家如A.S.Hornby, Michael Swan 和 Trudy Smoke 等对英语修饰语顺序的论述,基本情况大致如下:前位限定词(如both, all, each 等)+冠词/形容词性物主代词/指示代词 + 基数词/序数词 + 一般描述性形容词及以ed, -ing, -y, -ful, -ous 等结尾的形容词或分词 + 大小 + 形状 + 年龄 + 颜色 + 表明国籍和宗教信仰的形容词,或以 -ic, -al, -y结尾 的形容词 + 名词修饰语(表材料构成的名词 + 表目的或用途的名词)/动名词 + 被修饰语。下面请看英语专家提供的几个例子: the two big angular old green air-conditioned cars her three lovely little slender new-born gray Persian cats a chipped huge square blue-white English soup bowl a weeping tiny round old gray-haired French lady 当然在实际运用中有上面例子中那么多的修饰语的句子不太常见。修饰词通常少则一两个,多则三至五个。下面笔者选编了一些这方面的练习,供大家参考、练习之用。 请按正确的顺序重新安排下列修饰语。 1. ________________ (brown, those, all, snakeskin, smart) shoes 2. ________________ (eating, the, all, green, sour) apples 3. ________________ (German, brown and white, large, antique) beer-mugs 4. her________________ (round, small, pink) face 5. Louise's ________________(evening, long, blue, famous) gown 6. a very________________( old, valuable, gold) watch 7. a(n)________________ (tennis, steel and nylon, expensive) racket 8. a ________________ (black, shiny, small, leather) handbag 9. several________________ (red, pickling, large) cabbages 10. a ________________ (purple, pretty, silk) dress Key: 1. all those smart brown snakeskin shoes 2. all the sour green eating apples 3. large antique brown and white German beer-mugs 4. her small round pink face 5. Louise's famous long blue evening gown 6. a very valuable old gold watch 7. an expensive steel and nylon tennis racket 8. a small shiny black leather handbag 9. several large red pickling cabbages 10. a pretty purple silk dress (文/唐建国 姚朝平;英语辅导报 大学一年级版 04~05学年第24期; 版权归英语辅导报社所有,独家网络合作伙伴新浪教育,未经许可,不得以任何形式进行转载。) |