1、在句子里使用名词应注意的问题
名词的数:单数、复数和不可数;
名词的格:通格和属格 (s )
名词的限定:特指、泛指、数量和习惯用法,即名词前加冠词或
其它限定词, 例如: some, many , this, my 等
2、名词的数和单位词
1)复型名词 + 复数动词
The trousers are too big for me. Please show me the smaller pair.
备用词: shoes, stockings, glasses, socks
NOTICE: A pair of glasses costs quite a lot.
2)复型名词 + 单数动词
A. The news on TV is seldom satisfying.
备用词:mathematics, physics, politics, means, works, the United States
B. Twenty miles is a long way to walk.
备用词: five pounds, two feet, six weeks
3) 集合名词 + 复数名词
The police have surrounded the building.
Cattle are selling for record price (创记录).
备用词: the enemy, (the) people
NOTICE: 表示由若干人组成的集合体的单数词常可作复数用,
但若把这个集合体看作整体就用作单数:
My family are wonderful. They do all they can for me.
The family which now consists of four members at most is smaller than it used to be.
4)不可数名词作可数的情况
A. 部分不可数名词可以有下列情况
a (an) + adj. + n.
It looks like rain. a thirsty for knowledge(求知欲)
a heavy rain He has a good knowledge of politics.
备用词: snow, breakfast, wine, oil, education
B.口语特例(特定场合)
A (One) beer, please.
Two teas and four coffees, please.
5)既是可数又是不可数的名词
I broke a glass this morning. (杯子)
Glass is made from sand. (玻璃)
备用词: paper / a paper, light(光) / a light(灯);
ice(冰) / an ice (冰激凌), chicken(鸡肉) / a chicken (雏鸡)
6) 单位词
A.个数
a piece of information (furniture, advice)
B. 以形状表示个数
a grain of rice, a flight of stairs
C. 容量
a box of matches, a cup of tea
D. 计量
a metre of cloth, a ton of coal
E.其它
a (new) set of tools (wires, teeth, rules)
3、名词的格:
1) s 的用法
A . 与时间有关的名词
a nights sleep ten minutes walk
NOTICE: a two-hour walk = two hourswalk
B. 和else 连用
book can this be?
A. Who elses
B. Whose else
C. Whos else
D. Whose elses
(A)
C. s 修饰的词,如果前面提到,可省略
This is Jacks book, not Toms.
This book is Jacks not Toms.
D. 表示店、铺、家、诊所等, s 后面的名词省略
at the Greens (house), at the doctors (office)
2) OF 结构表示所有关系
A. 无生命的名词用of
the price of the success
B. 有生命的名词被一个短语或从句修饰而表示所有关系时用of
Cant you look at the book of the boy behind you?
3)双重所有格
s 与of结构并用,此时of结构所修饰的名词前通常有a, an, two, some, that等
Miss Smith is a friend of Marys mothers.
that brother of the girl
4)名词 + 名词 (名词用作形容词)
A. 单数名词+名词 a shoe (flower) shop ticket office
NOTICE: the tailors (shop)
B. 复数名词 + 名词
sports meet clothes shop women pilots
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