英語六級語法精析之形容詞、副詞及其比較級
(1)以 “a” 開頭的形容詞如alone, alike, asleep, awake等不能做前臵定語,可做表語或后臵定語。
(2)某些以副詞詞綴 “-ly” 結尾的詞是形容詞,如friendly, leisurely, lovely等。
(3)下列動詞既是實義動詞又是系動詞,注意用做系動詞時,要求形容詞做表語:remain, keep, become, get, grow, go, come, turn, stay, stand, run, prove, seem, appear, look。
2.考比較級時,考生應把握
(1)形容詞和副詞比較級的形式是否和比較連詞對應出現,即是否符合原級比較及比較級的結構。如:
On the whole, ambitious students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are those with little ambition.
(2)比較的成分是否屬于同類事物或同類概念。如:
Young readers, more often than not, find the novels of Dickens far more exciting than Thackeray’s.
(3)比較級的修飾語如 a little, a lot, the, any, even, far, hardly, lots, much, rather,還有表示倍數比較的詞等,他們的位臵是:修飾語+as…as…, 或修飾語+more…than…。如:
Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills seven times more people each year than automobile accidents.
(4)下列詞和短語不用比較級形式卻表示比較概念:
inferior,minor,senior,prior,prefer to,superior,major,junior,preferable,differ from,compared with,in comparison with,different from,rather than。如:
Their watch is superior to all the other watches on the market.
3.最高級形式應注意的問題
比較級形式表示最高級意義時,比較對象的范圍應用: any other +單數名詞 the other +復數名詞 the others、 anyone/anything else
上述詞是用來將比較級結構轉變成最高級意義的關鍵詞語,切不可遺漏,否則會造成邏輯混亂的錯誤。如不能說:John runs faster than anyone.注意與漢語表達的不同。
4.有關比較級的特殊句型
(1)not so much…as…與其說……不如說……
The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates as a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.
(2)no/not any more…than…兩者一樣都不……
There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, any more than they can limit how much water you drink.
(3)no /not any less…than…兩者一樣都……
She is no less beautiful than her sister.
(4)just as…so….正如……,……也……(用倒裝結構)
Just as the soil is a part of the earth, so is the atmosphere.