冠词
冠词分为不定冠词a/an,定冠词the和零冠词。
不定冠词的用法
a用于辅音音素之前,an用于元音音素之前
Eg: It’s raining now. Take an umbrella, please.
This is a usual thing.
与单数可数名词连用,表示同类人或物中的任何一个或其中之一,意为“一个,某个”
Eg: I want to buy a car.
He is an honest boy.
与单数可数名词连用,表示一类人或物,句子译作中文时,不定冠词一般不译出
Eg: A teacher must grasp professional knowledge. (老师必须掌握专业知识。)
An student should realize the importance of studying hard.
(学生应该意识到刻苦学习的重要性。)
用在一些集体名词、专有名词以及具体化的抽象名词和物质名词前,意为“一类,一种”等意义
Eg: We need an army to protect our country.
I never a Eric in my neighborhood.
What a pity!
She drank a coffee this morning.
与单数可数名词连用,表示数量或单位数量,意为“一,每,一种”
Eg: It took me an hour to get to the airport.
My mother cleans the house three times a week.
It’s a symbol of good luck.
用于序数词前,意为“又一,再一”
Eg: They asked for a second chance.
I’m so thirsty that I’ve drunk two bottles of water. Now I still want a third one.
用于某些固定词组
a bit a few a little in a word have a cold have a fever have a headache
have a cough to an end take a pride in play a trick on play a role in once upon a time have a rest take a break a great deal
定冠词的用法
指上文提到的人或事物
Eg: There is a pen on your desk. Give the pen to me please.
Here are two shirts. The blue one is yours.
表示说话人和听话人都知道的人或事
Eg: Your brother is sleeping. Please turn off the TV.
He was arrested by the police.
用于序数词和last, first, next, only, same等具有特指意义的形容词之前
Eg: She is the first woman who reached the top of Qomolangma.
He arrived in Shanghai the next morning.
It’s the only secret between us.
用于比较级和最高级前
Eg: Which do you think is the more delicious food of the two, hamburger or ice-cream
It’s the most interesting movie I’ve watched.
用在表示方位和方向的名词前
Eg: The bookstore is on the west of the museum.
You can see a zoo on the left.
用在表示世界上独一无二的自然现象或事物之前
Eg: The moon moves around the earth.
We have friends all over the world.
用于单数名词或某些形容词之前,表示某一类人、物或抽象概念
Eg: The lion is the king of animals.
He volunteered to help the sick in the hospital.
用于集体名词、物质名词和专有名词前
Eg: The people at present were Lily’s friends.
The iron is usually harder than the stone.
I visited the Summer Palace two years ago.
用于表示乐器的名词前
Eg: Peter can play the violin well.
Mary has learned to played the piano for ten years.
“the+姓氏的复数”表示整个家庭
Eg: The Smiths are having dinner.
用于某些固定的词组中
At the moment at the same time in the end on the left/right all the time in the morning the day after tomorrow the day before yesterday at the foot of around the world in the front of by the end of in the middle of by the way
零冠词的用法
表示泛指的复数名词前
Eg: Most girls work harder than boys.
Students are encouraged to read books.
一日三餐、球类、棋、牌等名词前
Eg: To keep healthy, we should have breakfast every day.
They like playing basketball.
Some old men played chess under the tree.
表示节日、季节、月份或星期中7天的名词前
Eg: Halloween is in October.
It’s very cold in winter.
Bill will visit his parents on Sunday.
物质名词、抽象名词、专有名词前
物质名词表示泛指时,抽象名词表示一种概念时,表示人名、地名、国家、城市、街道以及大多数湖泊的专业名词前,不用冠词
Eg: Drinking coffee is bad for children’s health.
Unity is strength.
New York is the largest city in America.
表示学科或语言的名词前
Eg: What’s this in English
It’s difficult for most girls to learn math well.
两个单数名词连用,表示一个整体,或两个形容词同时修饰一个名词并表示一个人或物时,后面的词不用冠词
Eg: He is a teacher and writer.
She wanted to buy a knife and fork.
Have you seen the black and white cat in my garden
名词前有某些限定词时
Eg: He lost his cellphone.
有些名词加冠词和不加冠词意义不同
Eg: at table 在吃饭 go to school 去上学
at the table 在桌子旁 go to the school 去学校(可以是上学,也可以指上班)
in front of 在.....前面(外部) take place(发生)
in the front of 在.....前面(内部) take the place of(代替)
练习:
1.-Do you often play_volleyball
-Yes. I want to be____volleyball player.
A. /; a B. a; the C. the; an D. the;/
2. Einstein is___famous inventor who was born in____1870s.
A. a;/ B. a;the C.the; the D. the;/
3. The Blacks have visited _______ Great Wall in China.
A. the B. an C. a D./
4. Many people gave away much money to__poor after the earthquake in Nepal.
A.the B. a C. an D./
5. This is____old umbrella. I want a new one.
A. a B. an C./ D.the
6. Is there ___good restaurant near here
A. a B. an C. the D./
7. Frank can play__ guitar. What about you
A. a B. an C. the D./
8. Jane is___16-year-old high school student in___United States,
A. a; the B. the; a C. a;/ D./;/
9. My son often has__egg and some vegetables for___dinner every day.
A. an;/ B. an; the C. a;/ D. a; the
10.-What do you think of football
-It is__exciting sport.
A. A B. an C. the D./
11. His uncle will give him___birthday present.It'll be wonderful.
A. a B. an C. the D./
12.-Look!Who is__beautiful girl in red
A. a Oh, she is my deskmate. B. an C. the D./
13. -Do you know____ boy over there
-Yes,he likes playing___guitar very much.
A. the;/ B a; the C.a:/ D. the;the
14. Grace is good at playing___ piano although she is only_____8-yearold girl.
A. /;the B. the; an C. a;/ D. the: the
15.-Which language do you speak better, ______ English or ______French
A. /;/ B. the; an C. a;/ D. the: the