形容词
一、形容词功能:
1.最长见的是作定语。
She is a pretty girl.
2.作表语:
She is pretty.
3.作宾补:
He made me angry.
二、形容词的位置
1. 两个以上的形容词修饰一个名词时,其先后次序为冠词+数量+性质+大小+形状+新旧+颜色+国籍+材料
a beautiful little new white Chinese wooden table
2. 后置定语
1)当被修饰的词是something, anything, nothing等不定代词时,形容词定语后置。
There must be something wrong with my bike.
2)当表语形容词作定语时。
表语形容词:alike, asleep, alive, alone,awake, afraid,ahead
表语形容词通常只作表语: he is not asleep.
但作定语时,必须后置: light ahead, boy awake
3、形容词特殊用法
与the连用,表示一类人: the rich, the wounded
三、形容词比较级与最高级
1. 规则变化
结构
原级
比较级
最高级
直接加er或est
tall
long
taller
longer
tallest
longest
以e结尾的加r或st
nice
fine
nicer
finer
nicest
finest
元音加辅音结尾,双写辅音
big
hot
bigger
hotter
biggest
hottest
辅音加y结尾,去y变i加er或est
happy
funny
happier
funnier
happiest
funniest
2. 不规则变化
good/well bad/ill many/much little *old *far
多音节形容词比较级前加more,最高级前加most
beautiful difficult
四、形容词构成的比较
1. 同级比较,as…as,not so(as)…as注意两者意思的不同
2. 表示倍数:“倍数+as+原级+as”
The room is twice as big as that one.
3. 比较级+than,表两者间的比较
He is taller than I.
4. the+比较级,the+比较级
5. 最高级的比较
He is the tallest in the class.
He is the tallest of the three boys.
注意:
*介词in和of通常用在最高级结构中,in表示地点,of后加名词复数,表示范围。
*当of后跟表示两者的人或物,用比较级,同时也要加the:
He is the taller of the two boys.
*当最高级前有物主供词或名词所有格时,或者两个最高级并列修饰名词时的后者,不要加the
He is my best friend.
五、三级修饰
1. 修饰原级的
quite, very, too, so, fairly, rather
2. 修饰比较级的
much, even, far, rather, still, any, a little, a bit, a lot, by far
3. 修饰最高级
by far, much, almost, nearly,
六、几组近义词比较
beautiful, good-looking
前者一般修饰女子,修饰男子暗含娘娘腔,女性化之意。后者修饰男、女都可。
elder, older
同为old的比较级,前者用于血亲比较,后者为一般比较。
my elder brother the older one
fast, quick
前者是指速度快,后者指动作本身快
the train is very fast.
He had a quick breakfast.
ill, sick
前者只作表语,后者可作定语和表语。
形容词练习
1.Although they are brothers, they are the
opposite of one another. (2004北京)
A. very B. just C. few D. little
2.the man lay on the road,luckily,he was not
hurt.(辽宁1997)
A.bad B.badly C.hardly D.serious
3.This dictionary is very good. It buying.
A.worths B.worth C.is worth D.is worthing
4.The writer died before finishing his book.
A.late B.later C.last D.latest
5.She looks very . I think she need rest.
A.tired B.hard C.well D.hardly
6.Don’t worry, your baby is looked after
here. The nurses are very .
A.careful, carefully B.carefully, careful
C.care, careless D.careless, care
7.She got that she couldn’t speak.
A.very angrily B.too angrily
C.too angry D.so angry
8.The sweater is very beautiful,but it’s small.
A.too much B.much too C.many D.more
9.Li lei didn’t run to Liu Feng.
A.enough quickly, catch up
B.fast enough, catch up with
C.quickly enough, keep up
D.enough fast, catch up with
10.He can’t hear you. Because there is noise here.
A.much too B.too much C.very much D.so many
11.He eats food, so he is fat.
A.much too, too much
B.much too, too many
C.too much, much too
D.too much, many too
12.Today, trees are still being cut down somewhere in the world.(辽宁2000)
A.much too B.too much
C.many too D.too many
13.It rained . People could go out.
A.hardly, hardly B.hardly, hard
C.hard,hard D.hard,hardly
14.Lots of visitors come to visit Dalian because she’s city.(大连2000)
A.very a beautiful
B.quite a beautiful
C.so a beautiful
D.a quite beautiful
15.It’s nice of you to help him.(天津2001)
A.true B.truly C.real D.really
16.30000 dollars is a large amount of money, but it’s than we need.(上海2001)
A.far more B.very much
C.far less D.very little