2022届高考英语备考:冠词倒置现象
一般而言,冠词和名词词组连用,冠词通常放在名词词组前面,而本文仅归纳不定冠词和定冠词与名词词组连用时出现倒置的现象,以期对各位同学学习有所帮助。
一、不定冠词倒置
1. 名词词组里如果有many, such, what, half等修饰时,不定冠词要放在这些词的后面。例如:
Many a boy is playing baseball. 许多男孩在打棒球。
He is such a nice man. 他是如此好的人。
What a good film it is! 这是多好的一部电影啊!
Half a month has passed soon. 半个月很快过去了。
2. 形容词前有as, so, too, how, however, enough等修饰时,不定冠词a或an必须置于形容词之后,名词之前。 例如:
He is as great a man as ever lived.
他像世上任何一位伟人一样伟大。
She is not so big a fool as you think. 她并不像你想象的那样蠢。
This is too difficult a problem for him. 这个问题对他来说太难了。
How brave a man you are! 你真勇敢啊!
However difficult a job it is, he can finish it smoothly.
不管多艰难的一项工作,他都能顺利地做完。
3. 在含有形容词比较级的句子中,位于形容词之后。例如:
This is more complex an idea than the others he has presented.
这个观点比他提出的其他观点都要复杂。
This is more difficult a problem than the others we discussed just now. 这个问题比我们刚讨论的问题更难。
4. 副词quite, rather与不定冠词a或an连用,不定冠词置于quite, rather之后用于强调。但若名词前有形容词时,不定冠词a, an可置于quite, rather之前。例如:
He is quite a man. 他的确是个男子汉。
He is rather a fool. 他是个十足的傻瓜。
Its rather a difficult job. 还可改为:Its a rather difficult job.
这是一份相当难做的工作。
This is quite a sudden change. 还可改为:This is a quite sudden change. 这一变化相当突然。
5. 在as, though引导的倒装让步状语从中,用作表语的名词前有形容词修饰时,不定冠词应放在形容词之后。例如:
Young a man as he is, he is fit for this job.
尽管他是个年青人,他胜任这项工作。
Poor a woman though she is, her life is happy.
尽管她穷,但生活很幸福。
二、定冠词倒置
1.定冠词通常放在twice, three times, two thirds等表示倍数的词或分数之后。例如:
This room is twice the size of that one.
这个房间是那个房间的两倍大。
This building is three times the height of that one.
这个大楼是那个大楼的三倍高。
This book is two-thirds the thickness of a dictionary.
这本书是一本字典的2/3厚度。
2.名词词组里如果有exactly, just, half, double, all, both等修饰时,定冠词要放在这些词之后。例如:
The two shirts are exactly the same color. 这两件衬衫颜色相同。
This is just the right place where he was born.
他就是出生在这个地方。
Half the oranges in the box were rotton.
这箱子里的橙子一半已烂掉了。
I gave her double the usual quantity to satisfy her needs.
我给她比通常多一倍的量来满足她的要求。
All the students do not pass the exam. 并非所有的学生考试及格。
Both the dictionaries are expensive. 两本字典都贵。
巩固练习:
1. It is generally believed that teaching is ____ it is a science.
A. an art much as B. much an art as
C. as an art much as D. as much an art as
2. We are in ____ when we left that we forgot the airline tickets.
A. a rush so anxious B. a such anxious rush
C. so an anxious rush D. such an anxious rush
3. ____ from Beijing to London!
A. How long way it B. What a long way it is
C. How long way is it D. What a long way is it
4. This is ____ that one.
A. as a difficult problem as B. as difficult a problem as
C. an as difficult problem as D. a so difficult problem as
5. That is ____ for me to carry.
A. too a heavy suitcase B. a too heavy suitcase
C. too heavy a suitcase D. heavy a too suitcase