英語(yǔ)中表示“許多、大量”等的意思的詞或詞組有很多,但有所不同。
1.修飾可數(shù)名詞的有:
many, a good/great many, a large/great number of, (quite) a few, scores of, dozens of 等。這些詞或詞組都接名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式,謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞也用復(fù)數(shù)形式,但many a也表示“許多”的意思,后接名詞的單數(shù)形式,謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞也用單數(shù)形式,例如:
Many a student has been sent to the mountain village.
2.修飾不可數(shù)名詞的有:
much, a good/great deal of, a large/huge amount of, (quite) a bit of 等。這些詞或詞組接不可數(shù)名詞,后面的謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞用單數(shù)形式。
3.既可以修飾可數(shù)名詞,又可以修飾不可數(shù)名詞的有:
plenty of, a lot of, lots of, a large/great quantity of, a good supply of,這些詞或詞組接復(fù)數(shù)或不可數(shù)名詞,修飾可數(shù)名詞時(shí),謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞用復(fù)數(shù);修飾不可數(shù)名詞時(shí),謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞用單數(shù)。但supplies of, (large) quantities of 同樣修飾復(fù)數(shù)或不可數(shù)名詞時(shí)謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞用的是復(fù)數(shù),應(yīng)特別注意。
除此之外,還有以下幾點(diǎn)要注意:
1).a great/good many直接加名詞時(shí)不能加of,而當(dāng)有指定范圍時(shí)可以of the …,例如:
A good many of the/those students in our class have passed the exam.
2).plenty of 前面不加a,而且常用在肯定陳述句中,否定和疑問(wèn)常用many、much或enough來(lái)代替,例如:
I don’t have much/enough money to buy a new car.
3).a lot of和lots of也常用于肯定陳述句中,這與plenty的上述用法相同。
聯(lián)系客服