Adj. & Adv. 形容詞和副詞
修飾詞的詞序
“限定詞+形容詞+名詞”詞組中限定詞+形容詞的排列順序。
限定詞 + 一般描述性形容詞 + 表示大小、形狀的形容詞 + 表示年齡、新舊的形容詞 + 表示顏色的形容詞 + 表示國籍、地區、出處的形容詞 + 表示物質材料的形容詞 + 表示用途、類別的形容詞或名詞
Examples
When she got her first month salary, Diana bought herself ___ dress.
A. a cotton, blue expensive
B. a blue, expensive cotton
C. an expensive blue, cotton
D. a cotton, expensive blue
1. 用連字號構成的形容詞中的名詞一般不用復數形式。
A three-day journey=a three days'journey
A two-hour meeting=a two hours' meeting
2. Daily, weekly, yearly, monthly等一些以ly結尾的詞即可以是形容詞也可是副詞。
A daily newspaper
Go to visit a place weekly
Yearly production (annual)
Change yearly
At a monthly interval
Go to see a doctor/ a dentist monthly
3. fast、long、well、enough等一些形容詞本身也可以做副詞用,不能再加ly。
The train is fast.
The train runs fast.
There is enough water.
He is old enough to go to school.
late, lately; hard, hardly
有些形容詞加ly后意義不同,發生變化(late, lately; hard, hardly等)。
Sorry I am late.
I haven't seen him lately.
It is hard to predict what will happen in the future.
If you work hard, chances are that you will achieve success in your career.
It is hardly too much to say that we benefit from doing some part-time jobs.
表語形容詞
有些形容詞只能做表語。(如表健康的ill、well和以前綴a開頭的形容詞alone, awake, aware, astir, ashore, asleep, alike, alive)
Are you aware that you are heading for danger?
My mother was still awake when I came back.
I am liable to fall asleep during boring lectures.
過去分詞用much修飾
過去分詞充當的形容詞用much修飾/與very+adj的區別。
He was much respected.
The story was very funny.
I was much excited.
It is very interesting.
too…to的含義
too ... to 表否定含義
It was too cold for us to go shopping.
(= It was so cold that we couldn't...)
(all/ only) too…to 表示肯定意義
He's only too pleased to help us. 非常愿意/高興幫助我們。
I shall be only too happy to go with you there.