随着新一批初三踏入校门,又一批初三学子将面临着2016年的上海
中考。英语语法中,有一些错误是经常犯的,同学们在复习做题的过程中就要有所警觉。下面是“蛇足”类错误例析。
“蛇足”类错误就是“画蛇添足”,在句中出现一些原本没有或本应省略的成分。
例1.
Though traveling by air is fast and comfortable, but it costs too much money. (×)
Traveling by air is fast and comfortable, but it costs too much money. (√)
Though traveling by air is fast and comfortable, it costs too much money. (√)
例2.
Because he was ill yesterday, so he didn’t go to work. (×)
Because he was ill yesterday, he didn’t go to work. (√)
He was ill yesterday, so he didn’t go to work. (√)
[析] 用though, but表示“虽然……,但是……”或用because, so 表示“因为……,所以……”时,though和but 及because和so 都只能择一而用,不能两者同时使用。
例3.
More than three hundreds people died in the oil well accident in Chongqing in 2003.(×)
More than three hundred people died in the oil well accident in Chongqing in 2003. (√)
[析] hundred, thousand, million, billion等词前有具体数词修饰用来表示“确数”时,无论数词大小,hundred等词都要用单数形式。
例4.
My English teacher is a 38-years old man. (×)
My English teacher is a 38-year-old man. (√)
[析] 句中的38-years-old是由数词、名词和形容词一起构成的复合形容词,在句中充当定语,修饰名词man。复合形容词作定语时, 其中的名词要用单数形式, 且各词之间要有连字符“-”。
例5.
The Smiths have moved Beijing. (×)
The Smiths have moved to Beijing. (√)
[析] 不及物动词后接名词或代词作宾语时,要在动词之后加上适当的介词;但不及物动词后接home, here, there等副词作宾语时,动词之后不必加任何介词。
例6.
The box is too heavy for him to carry it. (×)
The box is too heavy for him to carry. (√)
[析] the box既是这句话的主语, 也是不定式to carry的逻辑宾语,若句末再加上it,就和the box重复了。