Discovering Useful Structures
一、概述:
英语句子的基本语序是主语在前、谓语动词在后(the natural order),当语序颠倒时就成了倒装结构(the inverted order)。把谓语的全部放在主语之前称为完全倒装;而只把助动词或情态动词放在主语之前,则称为部分倒装。
Inversion 倒装句
基本语序 Natural Order
I love English.
subject (主)+ predicate (谓)+object (宾)
倒装的分类
1. 部分倒装:主语与助动词/情态动词/系动词倒装
结构:助动词/情态动词+ 主语+谓语动词
Never have I heard such a thing.
= I have never heard such a thing.
2. 全部倒装: 主语与谓语动词倒装
结构:谓语动词+ 主语
Down fell the rain. = The rain fell down.
全部倒装句
here, there, now, then, out,away,
up, down等副词置于句首, 谓语动词常用be, come, go, lie, run等。当其主语为名词时,通常要使用倒装。例如:
a. There goes the bell. b. Then came the chairman.
c. Here is your letter. d. Away went the boy to the school.
e. Off goes the woman.
Inversion 倒装句
注意:上述全部倒装句型结构中的主语必须是名词,如果主语是人称代词则不能倒装。
Here he comes.
Away they went.
Inversion 倒装句
2. 以引导词there开头的句子,须使用倒装结构,除 there be 外还有there live / stand / lie / exist等。例如:
a. There are three books on the desk.
b. There lived an old fisherman near the sea.
c. There stands a tall building in the centre of the town.
Inversion 倒装句
so, neither, nor表示前面所述一件事也适合另一个人或物时。so用于肯定句, neither/nor 用于否定句。
a. Tom can speak French. So can Jack.
b. If you don't go, neither will I.
Inversion 倒装句
2)但如果上文所述两件事也适合另一个人或 物,就用 So it is /was with sb.或It is/was the same with sb.。
Marx was born in Germany and German was his native language. So it was with Engels.
注意:当 so引出的句子用以对上文内容加以证实或 肯定,意为“的确如此”时,不可用倒装结构。 Tom asked me to go to play football and so I did. --- It’s raining hard. --- So it is.
Inversion 倒装句
4. 介词短语做地点状语放在句首时
a. In the cottage lives a family of six.
b. Near the bridge was an old cottage.
c. In front of the house sat a little boy.
部分倒装句
1. 疑问句
a. Have you seen the film?
b. When are we going to drink to your happiness?
注意:如疑问词在句中做主语,则用自然语序。
c. Who is your sister?
d. What is our work?
部分倒装句
2. so/such...that的so/such位于句首时
So loudly did the students read that
people could hear them out in the street.
b. So small were the words that he could hardly see them.
c. Such a famous man is he that everyone wants to take a photo with him.
部分倒装句
3. 否定意义的副词或短语位于句首时,常见的有:in no way, not only…but also, never, little, rarely, seldom, hardly... When, no sooner…than, scarcely…when, in no case, not until(当Not until引出主从复合句,主句倒装,从句不倒装)等。
a. Not until the child fell asleep did the mother leave the room.
b. Hardly?can?I?follow?you.
c. Seldom?do?I?visit?USA.
d. Never have I seen such a performance.
部分倒装句
注意: 如否定词不在句首则不倒装。
e. I have never seen such a performance.
f. The mother didn't leave the room
until the child fell asleep.
部分倒装句
4. 由as引导的让步状语从句表语十as+主语十系动词be;
动词原形+as+主语十助动词。例如:
Young as he is, he knows some of the family.
b. Try as I might, I could not lift the stone.
注意:当单数名词位于句首时,名词前无冠词。
c. Child as he is, he knows good English.
部分倒装句
5. 省略连词 if的条件副词分句
Were I you, I would not do such a thing.
= If I were you, I would not do such a thing.
Would the machine break down again, send it back to us.
= If the machine would break down again, send it back to us.
部分倒装句
6. 有些表示“感叹、祝愿”等语气的句子,也可使用倒装结构。
a. Isn’t it cold! 天气真冷!
b. May both be happy! 祝你们两位幸福!
c. May God bless you. 愿上帝赐福于你。
d. Long live the king! 国王万岁!
部分倒装句
Such was the story he told me.
= The story he told me was such.
Such was what Peter spoke at the meeting.
=What Peter spoke at the meeting was such.
8. 在“such+be+主语”的结构中
Discovering Useful Structures