当形容词与名词连用,英语中常用的顺序是形容词+名词:
a 黄色气球
不是:气球黄色
带名词和动词的形容词
形容词可以放在名词(定语)或连接动词之后,如成为,变成,似乎(谓词):
What a beautiful flower! (定语)
This bridge looks unsafe. (predicative)
Some adjectives can only be used in one position or the other.(谓词)
有些形容词只能在一个位置或另一个位置使用。
形容词通常只用于名词之前
数字和先,后
用数字和像这样的词先,后,下,通常的顺序是第一/下一+数字+形容词+名词:
Special offer on the last three remaining sofas.
There used to be two big fields here when I was young.
I don’t have to work for the next four days.
That’s the second large study on unemployment this year.
几个程度形容词
当我们用像的、完全的、完美的说到程度,它们只能在名词之前使用。这组形容词包括正确的,纯洁的,真实的,纯粹的,真实的,彻底的:
那是一个的撒谎。你不在的时候我没有用你的车。
That’s an absolute lie. I did not use your car when you were away.
Not: That lie is absolute.
Lily has always been a true friend to me.
Not: My friend Lily is true.
时间和秩序的一些形容词
一些时间和顺序的形容词,如以前、现在、将来,仅在名词之前使用。其他例子有后一种,旧的 (老朋友(“多年的朋友”),早 (法国早期文学=“某事物历史的最初阶段”),以及迟来 (已故的理查兹先生=“最近去世”):
Her former husband had bought the house but she never liked it.
Not: Her husband was former …
This is a church from the early Romanesque period
Not: This is a church from the Romanesque period. The Romanesque period was early.
当我们使用早动词后面的意思是不同的。火车早意味着它比我们预期的要早。
限定以下名词的形容词
形容词定, 主, 主修, 只, 特别限制他们前面的名词知道的人,我们走过的那条特别的路)。其他例子有校长, 鞋底(意思是“”),非常, 主任:
The main reason why the cinema closed is because the building was too old and dangerous.
Not: The reason is main why the cinema …
That’s the very tool I am looking for. (very means ‘exact’)
Not: That tool is very …
形容词通常只用于名词之后
我们用一些-埃德名词后面的形式:
Most of the issues mentioned in the documentary are not very important.
Not: Most of the mentioned issues …
The difference in percentages is clear from the illustrations shown.
Not: … from the shown illustrations.
形容词通常只用于动词之后
带前缀的形容词a-
我们不能用带前缀的形容词a-在名词之前我们在连接动词之后使用它们,例如成为,似乎,成为,感觉,嗅觉,品味。带有前缀的形容词的常见示例A-包括醒着,活着,睡着,上船(在飞机、船只、巴士或火车上),漂浮、燃烧(着火):
Katie was awake at the time.
Not: Katie was an awake person at the time.
People were asleep in the bedroom.
Not: There were asleep people in the bedroom.
The passengers were all aboard when they heard the loud bang.
Not: The aboard passengers heard the loud bang.
如果我们想在名词前面用形容词来表达类似的意思,我们可以使用一个相关的形容词。
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