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不确定物品的一些值得注意的用法_定冠词论文

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不定冠词是限定词中的一类,是一种虚词,一般用来修饰单数可数名词,但有时也可修饰不可数名词。

一、类别用法

1.除表示某一类人或事物外,用在作补足语和同位语的名词之前,泛指某人的职业、阶级等。例如:

Mr Zhang is considered(to be)an excellent English teacher.

Wang Ling,amaths teacher,is to give us a lecture tomorrow.

但如果这一职位在一个时期内只由一个担任或表示称号、头衔时,则不用冠词。例如:

In 1860,Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.

2.在名词带有一个描绘性定语时用不定冠词。例如:

I’m going to borrow’a French novel to read.(描绘性不定式)

A certain boy saw a big dog run out of the gate last Sunday.(描绘性形容词。常在讲故事时用,表明讲故事的人心中的具体人,但尚未告诉人们是谁)

二、指量用法

1.不定冠词除表示“一个”(I'll be back in a day or two.)及“每一”(Take the medicine three times a day)的意义之外,在“of+a+名词”的结构中,表示“同一”、“相同”之意。例如:

Comrade Li and I are nearly of an age.老李跟我年龄大致相同。

My elder brother's shoes and mine are of a size.我哥哥的鞋跟我的一样大小(一个号)。

2.a与One同源。但强调数目概念时用“One”,并要重读。例如:

There's only'one way to go.

No'one boy can carry it.

试比较:

I have a picture book.(并非强调一本)

I have'One picture book.(只有一本,没有两本、三本)。

三、用在不可数名词前,表示有一种特殊含义

1.用在一些表示动作的名词(reat,walk,look,try,sleep,breath…)之前表示“一次”、“一下”、“一会儿”等。例如:

Let's have a rest.

He made a second try.

After looking round,he decided to have a look upstairs.

2.表示“一种”、“一类”。例如:

“You don't understand,”said Joe,a cruel light shining in hiseyes.“你不懂,”乔说,眼睛里闪着(一种)凶狠的光。

As a child,he had to make a living.

3.表示风、雨等的“一阵”。例如:

An hour later,he was woken up by a violent knocking on his door.

That's why we are most likely to see worms after a heavy rain.

4.表示“某种程度”。例如:

China has a population of over one billion.

A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold.

He seemed to be in a fever.

5.表示饮料的“一份”、“一种”。例如:

Mao-tai is a famous Chinese wine.

I want a black coffee.

四、其他用法

1.常用在quite,few,rather,many,half,such,what等词之后。例如:

He is rather a fool.

What a wonderful film you have seen.

He has been to Lanzhow many a time.(=many times)

又如:half an hour,quite a big…

2.常用在so(as,too,how)+形容词之后。例如:

She is as clever a girl as you wish to meet.

It's too difficult a lesson for us to understand.

We have not had so cold a day as this for many weeks.

How fine a day it is!

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