课件21张PPT。英语冠词
的常见用法冠词是虚词,本身不能单独使用,也没有词义,它用在名词的前面,帮助指明名词的含义. 英语中的冠词有三种,一种是定冠词,另一种是不定冠词,还有一种是零冠词.
一、不定冠词的用法不定冠词a (an)与数词one 同源,是“一个”的意思。
1)表示“一个”,意为one,表示单位。
Rome wasn’t built in a day.2) 表示一类人或物。
A knife is a tool for cutting with.
Mr. Smith is an engineer.3)用在“Mr. / Mrs. / Miss +姓氏”前,表示a certain
A Mr. Ling is waiting for you.4) 用“a/ an + 某些抽象名词”表示具体的人或事,意为“一个……的人” “一件……的事”
He is a success.
It’s a shame.
It is a pleasure for me to work with you.二、定冠词的用法定冠词the与指示代词this, that, these, those同源, 有“这(那)个/些的意思,但较弱,可以和一个名词连用,来表示某个或某些特定的人或物。1) 特指双方都明白的人或物。
Open the door.
Take the medicine.2) 上文提到过的人或事
---He bought a house.
---I’ve been to the house.3) 指世上独一无二的事物
the sun, the sky, the moon, the earth
the universe4) 与单数名词连用表示一类事物
the dollar the fox
Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone in 1876.5)在限定性定语修饰的名词前
The restaurant where I had my dinner last night is bad.6)与形容词或分词连用,表示一类人
The rich the living7)用在序数词和形容词最高级,及形容词only, very, same 前面
---where do you live?
---I live on the second floor.
That’s the very thing I’ve been looking for.8) 与复数名词连用,指整个群体。
They are the teachers of this school.
9)用在某些由普通名词构成的国家名称、机关团体、阶级等专有名词前
the People’s Republic of China;
the United States10)用在表示乐器的名词前
She plays the piano.11)用在 姓氏的复数名词前,表一家人
the Greens12)用在某些表示民族、阶级、阶层的名词前
the Chinese; the English; the working class13) 用在表方位名词前或某些表示时间的词组或惯用语中
On the left; in the west ; in the end ; by the
end of ; in the morning14) 表示河流、山川群岛、海峡海湾
The Dead sea; the Straits of Taiwan零冠词的用法
1)泛指复数名词,表示一类人或事物,用零冠词。
They are teachers.2) 抽象名词表示一般概念时, 通常不加冠词。
Failure is the mother of success.3) 物质名词表示一般概念时, 通常不加冠词。
当物质名词表示特定的意思时,需要加定冠词。
Man cannot live without water.
Help! A boy has fallen in the water.
(大片的水、水域)4) 名词前有物主代词、指示代词、不定代词、名词所有格等修饰时不加冠词。
This is my book.
This ball is very important to me.
Some students are planting trees.5)表示一般意义的季节、月份、节日、假日、日期、星期等名词前 (festival除外)
We go to school from Monday to Friday.
He was born in winter/ in Dec. /on Dec 2.6)在称呼或表官衔、职位的名词做宾补、同位语、表语时,不加冠词。
Lincoln was elected President for the second time.
We all made Xiao Ming monitor of Class 3, Senior 1.7)表示一般意义的三餐饭、球类运动、娱乐运动的名称前,不加冠词
have breakfast, play basketball, play chess但当三餐饭前有形容词修饰时,可用不定冠词修饰
He had a good dinner.区分:
Go to hospital
Go to the hospital
Go to church
Go to the church
Go to college
Go to the college(school, college, prison, market, hospital, bed, table, church, work)1 Many people are still in ______ habit of writing silly things in ______ public places.
A the; the B / ; / C the ; / D / ; the
2. She is ______ newcomer to ________ chemistry but she has already made some important discoveries.
A the; the B the; / C a; / D a; the
3 Wouldn’t it be _____ wonderful world if all nations lived in ______ peace with one another?
A a; / B the; / C a ; the D the; theCCA4. Most animals have little connection with ____ animals of ______ different kind unless they kill them for food.
A the; a B / ;a C the; the D / ;the
5. Summers in _____ south of France are for _____ most part dry and sunny.
A / ;a B the; / C / ; / D the; the
6 The warmth of _____ sweater will of course be determined by the sort of _____ wool used.
A the; the B the; / C / ;the D / ; /
BDB7. Mr. Smith, there’s a man at _____ front door who says he has ______ news for you of great importance.
A the; / B the; the C /; / D /; the
8 Jumping out of _______ airplane at ten thousand feet is quite ____ exciting experience.
A / ;the B / ; an C an; an D the; the
AC9. One way to understand thousands of new words is to gain ____ good knowledge of basic word formation.
A / B the C a D one
10 The cakes are delicious. He’d like to have ____ third one because ____ second one is rather too small.
A a; a B the; the C a; the D the; aCC