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Day2复合名词的构成及其复数变化
【复合名词(compound noun)】在英语中很常见，它由名词、动词、副词、形容词及介词组合而成，一般包含
两个部分。
构成方式
例词
构成方式
例词
名词+名词
newspaper报纸，classroom教室
动词+名词
typewriter打字机，
playground操场
名词+动词
haircut理发，sunrise日出
形容词+名词
supermarket超市，greenhouse温室
名词+动名词
handwriting书法，horse-riding骑马
1.有主体词的复合名词，一般把主体词变成复数形式，
(1)名词+介词/介词短语
如：mother-in-law→nothers-in-law(岳母)；sistcr-in-law→sistcrs--in-law(嫂了)；cditor-in-chief-editors--in-chief
(主编)；passer--by→passers-by(过路人)；looker--on→lookers--on(旁观若)
(2)名词+形容词
如：notary public-→notaries public(公证员)；secretary general-→secretaries general(秘书长)；half brother-→half
brothers(同父异母兄弟)
2.没有主体词的复合名词，如动词短语演变成名词，一般在词尾加s.
如：gown-up→gown-ups(成年人)；close-up→close-ups(特写镜头)
3.特殊情况
(I)man和woman修饰名词，前后都要变
t如：woman doctor-→vomen doctors;woman journalist-→vomen journalists
(②)man和woman,child作为单词的后绫时，只变后面
t如：policeman→policemen;fireman-→firemen;chairwoman-→chairwomen;:grandchild-→grandchildren
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Day2
语法专练
姓名：
日期：
耗时：
一、
单项选择
1.
During the flood(洪灾)，many
in our
6.
Her screams drew
to the scene.
province went to Henan as volunteers.
A.passers-bys
B.passers-by
A.woman doctor
B.woman doctors
C.passer-by
D.passers-bys
C.women doctors D.womens doctor
7.
There are some
in these
2.
The
gave us some good
A.knifes;pencil boxes B.knives;pencil box
A.fireman,advices B.firemen,advice
C.knives;pencils box D.knives;pencil boxes
C.fireman,advice
D.firemen,advices
8.
We're blessed with five lovely
3.
Can I have a look at your
They are so
A.grandchild
B.grandchildes
beautiful.
C.granachild:
D.grandchildren
A.model plane
B.models plane
9.
The family consisted of my father and mother,two
C.model planes
D.models planes
older
and,afterward,a little sister,Mildred.
4.
Most of us
are seriously fun-deprived.
A.half brothers
B.halves brothers
A.grown-ups
B.grown-up
C.halfs brothers
D.half brother
C.growns-ups
D.g实owhs-p
10.In our grade,
number of English teachers is
5.
There were more than 600 editors of committee
about fifty.And most of them are
(委员会)from China,over50 of which were
A.the;women teachers
of journals
B.a;women teachers
A.editor-in-chief
B.editor-in-chiefs
C.the;woman teachers
C.editors-in-chief
D.editors-in-chiefs
D.a;woman teachers山每Dssp
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Day2语法专练【解析】
【答案】C【解析】复合名词变复数时，man和woman修饰名词，前后都要变。woman
doctor中woman修饰doctor,变复数时，两个词都要变，即women doctors。
2.
【答案】B【解析】fireman“消防员，其复数形式是firemen;advice建议”，是不可数
名词，没有复数形式。
3.
【答案】C【解析】根据They are.”可知此处用名词复数，model plane的复数为model
planes。故选C。
4.
【答案】A【解析】Most of us表示我们大多数人”，后面接复数形式，grown-up“成年
人”，没有主体词，由动词短语演变成名词，一般在词尾加s。其复数形式是grown-ups。
5.
【答案】C【解析】editor-in-chief主编”，是复合名词，变复数时，只把前面的名词
editor变为复数editors,即editors-in-chief。
6。
【答案】B【解析】passer-by“过路人”，是有主体词的复合名词，一般把主体词变成复
数形式，即passers-by.
7.
【答案】D【解析】nife“刀”的复数为knives;these后加可数名词复数pencil boxes “铅笔
盒”。故选D。
8.
【答案】D【解析】five lovely后面接名词复数形式，grandchild孙子；孙女；外孙；外
孙女”，其复数形式是不规则变化，为grandchildren。
9。
【答案】A【解析】two older后面接复数形式。half brother'同父异母或同母异父的兄弟”，
是名词+形容词构成的复合名词，变复数时，只把主体词名词brother变为复数brothers,
即half brothers。
10.【答案】A【解析】he表特指，定冠词；a表示泛指，不定冠词，用于以辅音音素开头
的单词前；women teachers'“女教师”，复合名词的复数形式；woman teachers表达错误。
第一空，根据number of English teachers is about fifty'可知，此处是指英语老师的数量，
考查the number of..的数量，作主语时谓语动词应用三单形式，排除B和D；第二
空，根据“most of them are”可知，此处应用复合名词的复数形式，“man/woman+名词”
构成的复合名词变复数时，两个词都要变成复数，排除C。故选A。
