English is a crazy language
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? If you have one goose, two geese, why not one moose, two meese, or one index, two indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, or that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital; ship by truck and send cargo by ship; have noses that run and feet that smell; park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites, and quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horsefull carriage or a strapfull gown; met a sung hero or experienced requited love; have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
Y ou have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when they lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I windup this essay, I end it?
Here's an excerpt from the opening chapter in my Crazy English: the Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language (Pocket Books, 1989). If you see this floating around the Net unattributed, please suggest to the webmaster of that site that the material be properly cited.
English is a Crazy Language (Part I)
July 1, 1996
English is the most widely spoken language in the history of our planet, used in some way by at least one out of every seven human beings around the globe. Half of the world's books are written in English, and the majority of international telephone calls are made in English. English is the language of over sixty percent of the world's radio programs. More than seventy percent of international mail is written and addressed in English, and eighty percent of all computer text is stored in English. English has acquired the largest vocabulary of all the world's languages, perhaps as many as two million words, and has generated one of the noblest bodies of literature in the annals of the human race.
Nonetheless, it is now time to face the fact that English is a crazy language -- the most lunatic and loopy and wifty and wiggy of all languages. In the crazy English language, the blackbird hen is brown, blackboards can be green or blue, and blackberries are green and then red before they are ripe. Even if blackberries were really black and blueberries really blue, what are strawberries, cranberries, elderberries, huckleberries, raspberries, and gooseberries supposed to look like?
To add to this insanity there is no butter in buttermilk, no egg in eggplant, no grape in grapefruit, no bread in shortbread, neither worms nor wood in wormwood, neither mush nor room in mushroom, neither pine nor apple in pineapple, neither peas nor nuts in peanuts, and no ham in a hamburger. (In fact, if somebody invented a sandwich consisting of a ham patty in a bun, we would have a hard time finding a name for it.)
To make matters worse, English muffins weren't invented in England, french fries in France, or Danish pastries in Denmark. And we discover even more culinary madness in the relevations that sweetmeat is made from fruit, while sweetbread, which isn't sweet, is made from meat.
In this unreliable English tongue, greyhounds aren't always grey (or gray); panda bears and koala bears aren't bears (they're marsupials); a woodchuck
is a groundhog, which is not a hog; a horned toad is a lizard; glowworms are fireflies, but fireflies are not flies (they're beetles); ladybugs and lightning bugs are also beetles (and to propogate, a significant proportion of ladybugs must be male); a guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea (it's a South American rodent); and a titmouse is neither mammal nor mammaried.
Language is like the air we breathe. It's invisible, inescapable, indispensable, and we take it for granted. But, when we take the time to step back and listen to the sounds that escape from the holes in people's faces and to ex- plore the paradoxes and vagaries of English, we find that hot dogs can be cold, darkrooms can be lit, homework can be done in school, nightmares can take place in broad daylight while morning sickness and daydreaming can take place at night, tomboys are girls and midwives can be men, hours -- especially happy hours and rush hours -- often last longer than sixty minutes, quick- sand works very slowly, boxing rings are square, silverware and glasses can be made of plastic and tablecloths of paper, most telephones are dialed by being punched (or pushed?), and most bathrooms don't have any baths in them. In fact, a dog can go to the bathroom under a tree -- no bath, no room; it's still going to the bathroom. And doesn't it seem a little bizarre that we go to the bathroom in order to go to the bathroom?
Why is it that a woman can man a station but as man can't woman one, that a man can father a movement but a woman can't mother one, and that a king rules a kingdom but a queen doesn't rule a queendom? How did all those Renaissance men reproduce when there don't seem to have been any Renaissance women?
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, haberdashers don't haberdash, hammers don't ham, and humdingers don't humding.
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese -- so one moose, two meese? One index, two indices -- one Kleenex, two Kleenices? If people ring a bell today and rang a bell yesterday, why don't we say that they flang a ball? If they wrote a letter, perhaps they also bote their tongue. If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught? Why is it that the sun shone yesterday while I shined my shoes, that I treaded water and then trod on the beach, and that I flew out to see a World Series game in which my favorite player flied out?
If we conceive a conception and receive at a reception, why don't we grieve a greption and believe a beleption? If a horsehair mat is made from the hair of horses and a camel's hair brush from the hair of camels, from what is a mohair coat made? If adults commit adultery, do infants commit infantry? If olive oil is made from olives, what do they make baby oil from? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? (And I'm beginning to worry about those author itarians.)
And if pro and con are opposites, is congress the opposite of progress? Here's Part II of "English is a Crazy Language," from Crazy English(Pocket Books, 1989). If you happened to miss Part I, please consult the archives.
English is a Crazy Language (Part II)
August 17, 1996
Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? In what other language do privates eat in the general mess and generals eat in the private mess? In what other language do people ship by truck and send cargo by ship? In what other language can your nose run and your feet smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same and a bad licking and a good licking be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can sharp speech and blunt speech be the same and quite a lot and quite a few the same, while overlook and oversee are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next? How can the expressions "What's going on?" and "What's coming off?" mean exactly the same thing?!?
If button and unbutton and tie and untie are opposites, why are loosen and unloosen and ravel and unravel be same? If bad is the opposite of good, hard the opposite of soft, and up the opposite of down, why are badly and goodly, hardly and softy, and upright and downright not opposing pairs? If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful nonactions, why are shameful and shameless behavior the same and pricey objects less expensive than priceless ones.
If appropriate and inappropriate remarks and passable and impassable mountain trails are opposites, why are flammable and inflammable
materials, heritable and inheritable property, and passive and impassive people the same and valuable objects less treasured than invaluable ones? If uplift is the same as lift up, why are upset and set up opposite in meaning? Why are pertinent and impertinent, canny and uncanny, and famous and infamous neither opposites nor the same? How can raise and raze and reckless and wreckless be opposites when each pair contains the same sound?
Why is it that when the sun or the moon or the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible; that when I clip a coupon from a newspaper I separate it, but when I clip a coupon to a newspaper, I fasten it; and that when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I shall end it?
English is a crazy language.
How can expressions like "I'm mad about my flat," "No football coaches allowed," "I'll come by in the morning and knock you up," and "Keep your pecker up" convey such different messages in two countries that purport to speak the same English?
How can it be easier to assent than to dissent but harder to ascend than to descend? Why it is that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head; that if you decide to be bad forever, you choose to be bad for good; and that if you choose to wear only your left shoe, then your left one is right and your right one is left? Right?
English is a Crazy Language Part III
September 30, 1996
Has it ever struck you that we English users are constantly standing meaning on its head? Let's look at a number of familiar English words and phrases that turn out to mean the opposite or something very different from what we think they mean:
I could care less. I couldn't care less is the clearer, more accurate version. Why do so many people delete the negative from this statement? Because they are afraid that the n't . . . less combination will make a double negative, which is a no-no.
I really miss not seeing you. Whenever people say this to me, I feel like responding, "All right, I'll leave!" Here speakers throw in a gratuitous negative, not, even though I really miss seeing you is what they want to say.
The movie kept me literally glued to my seat. The chances of our buttocks being literally epoxied to a seat are about as small as the chances of our literally rolling in the aisles while watching a funny movie or literally drowning in tears while watching a sad one. We actually mean The movie kept me figuratively glued to my seat -- but who needs figuratively, anyway?
A non-stop flight. Never get on one of these. You'll never get down.
A near miss. A near miss is, in reality a collision. A close call is actually a near hit.
My idea fell between the cracks. If something fell between the cracks, didn't it land smack on the planks or the concrete? Shouldn't that be my idea fell into the cracks [or between the boards]?
I'll follow you to the ends of the earth. Let the word go out to the four corners of the earth that ever since Columbus we have known that the earth doesn't have any ends.
A hot water heater. Who heats hot water?
A hot cup of coffee. Here again the English language gets us in hot water. Who cares if the cup is hot? Surely we mean a cup of hot coffee.
Doughnut holes. Aren't those little treats really doughnut balls ? The holes are what's left in the original doughnut. (And if a candy cane is shaped like a cane, why isn't a doughnut shaped like a nut?)
I want to have my cake and eat it too. Shouldn't this timeworn cliché? be I want to eat my cake and have it too? Isn't the logical sequence that one hopes to eat the cake and then still possess it?
A one-night stand. So who's standing? Similarly, to sleep with someone.
The first century B.C.These hundred years occurred much longer ago than people imagined. What we call the first century B.C.was, in fact the last century B.C.
Daylight saving time. Not a single second of daylight is saved by this ploy.
The announcement was made by a nameless official. Just about everyone has a name, even officials. Surely what is meant is The announcement was made by an unnamed official.
Preplan, preboard, preheat, and prerecord. Aren't people who do this simply planning, boarding, heating, and recording? Who needs the
pre-tentious prefix?
Put on your shoes and socks. This is an exceedingly difficult maneuver. Most of us put on our socks first, then our shoes.
A hit-and-run play. If you know your baseball, you know that the sequence constitutes a run-and-hit play.
The bus goes back and forth between the terminal and the airport. Again we find mass confusion about the order of events. You have to go forth before you can go back.
I got caught in one of the biggest traffic bottlenecks of the year. The bigger the bottleneck, the more freely the contents of the bottle flow through it. To be true to the metaphor, we should say, I got caught in one of the smallest traffic bottlenecks of the year.
Underwater and Underground. Things that we claim are underwater and underground are obviously surrounded by, not under the water and ground.
I lucked out. To luck out sounds as if you're out of luck. Don't you mean I lucked in?
Because we speakers and writers of English seem to have our heads screwed on backwards, we constantly misperceive our bodies, often saying just the opposite of what we mean:
Watch your head. I keep seeing this sign on low doorways, but I haven't figured out how to follow the instructions. Trying to watch your head is like trying to bite your teeth.
They're head over heels in love. That's nice, but all of us do almost everything head over heels . If we are trying to create an image of people doing cartwheels and somersaults, why don't we say, They're heels over head in love?
Put your best foot forward. Now let's see. . . . We have a good foot and a better foot -- but we don't have a third -- and best -- foot. It's our
better foot we want to put forward. This grammar atrocity is akin to May the best team win. Usually there are only two teams in the contest.
Keep a stiff upper lip. When we are disappointed or afraid, which lip do we try to control? The lower lip, of course, is the one we are trying to keep from quivering.
I'm speaking tongue in cheek. So how can anyone understand you?
They do things behind my back. You want they should do things in front of your back?
They did it ass backwards. What's wrong with that? We do everything ass backwards.
English Is a Crazy Language (Part IV)
October 18, 1996
English is weird.
In the rigid expressions that wear tonal grooves in the record of our language, beck can appear only with call, cranny with nook, hue with cry, main with might, fettle only with fine, aback with taken, caboodle with kit, and spic and span only with each other. Why must all shrifts be short, all lucre filthy, all bystanders innocent, and all bedfellows strange? I'm convinced that some shrifts are lengthy and that some lucre is squeaky clean, and I've certainly met guilty bystanders and perfectly normal bedfellows.
Why is it that only swoops are fell? Sure, the verbivorous William Shakespeare invented the expression "one fell swoop," but why can't strokes, swings, acts, and the like also be fell? Why are we allowed to vent our spleens but never our kidneys or livers? Why must it be only our minds that are boggled and never our eyes or our hearts? Why can't eyes and jars be ajar, as well as doors? Why must aspersions always be cast and never hurled or lobbed?
Doesn't it seem just a little wifty that we can make amends but never just one amend; that no matter how carefully we comb through the annals of history, we can never discover just one annal; that we can never pull a shenanigan, be in a doldrum, eat an egg Benedict, or get a jitter, a willy,
a delirium tremen, or a heebie-jeebie; and that, sifting through the wreckage of a disaster, we can never find just one smithereen?
Indeed, this whole business of plurals that don't have matching singulars reminds me to ask this burning question, one that has puzzled scholars for decades: If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of or sell off all but one of them, what do you call that doohickey with which you're left?
What do you make of the fact that we can talk about certain things and ideas only when they are absent? Once they appear, our blessed English doesn't allow us to describe them. Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, sheveled, gruntled, chalant, plussed, ruly, gainly, maculate, pecunious, or peccable? Have you ever met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
I know people who are no spring chickens, but where, pray tell, are the people who are spring chickens? Where are the people who actually would hurt a fly? All the time I meet people who are great shakes, who can cut the mustard, who can fight City Hall, who are my cup of tea, and whom I would touch with a ten-foot pole, but I can't talk about them in English -- and that is a laughing matter.
If the truth be told, all languages are a little crazy. As Walt Whitman might proclaim, they contradict themselves. That's because language is invented, not discovered, by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all. That's why six, seven, eight, and nine change to sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety, but two, three, four, and five do not become twoty, threety, fourty, and fivety. That's why first degree murder is more serious than third degree murder but a third degree burn is more serious than a first degree burn. That's why we can turn lights off and on but not out and in. That's why we wear a pair of pants but, except on ery cold days, not a pair of shirts. That's why we can open up the floor, climb the walls, raise the roof, pick up the house, and bring down the house.
In his essay "The Awful German Language," Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating literally from a conversation in a German Sunday school book: "Gretchen. Wilhelm, where is the turnip? Wilhelm. She has gone to the kitchen. Gretchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden? Wilhelm. It has gone to the opera." Twain continues: "A tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female -- tomcats included."
Still, you have to marvel at the unique lunacy of the English language, in which your house can simultaneously burn up and burn down, in which you fill in a form by filling out a form, in which you add up a column of figures by adding them down, in which your alarm clock goes off by going on, in which you are inoculated for measles by being inoculated against measles, and in which you first chop a tree down -- and then you chop it up.
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攀登英语阅读系列·有趣的字母 北京师范大学“认知神经科学与学习”国家重点实验室攀登英语项目组编著 Lesson1 Frank the Rat 大老鼠弗兰克Frank the rat is in a bag. 大老鼠弗兰克在袋子里呢。 Frank is in a hat. 他在圆顶帽子里呢。 Frank is in a pan. 他在平底锅里呢。 Frank is on an apple. 他在苹果上呢。 Frank is on a bat. 他在球棒上呢。 “Oh, no!” Frank is on a cat. “噢，糟了！”弗兰克落在了猫身上！ Lesson 2 The Biscuits 我们来做饼干“I’m hungry!”“我饿了！” A biscuit…一块饼干可以是...... A biscuit can be a bus. 一块饼干可以是公共汽车。 A biscuit can be a bike. 和一块饼干可以是自行车。 A biscuit can be a boat. 一块饼干可以是小船。 A biscuit can be a banana. 一块饼干可以是香蕉。
A biscuit can be a bear. 一块饼干可以是小熊。 A biscuit can be a butterfly. 一块饼干可以是蝴蝶。 But…If birds are nearby…但是…..如果小鸟恰好在旁边的话…… The biscuits can only be birds.饼干就只是小鸟啦。 Lesson 3 Cool Cat 酷猫卡里 Cary is a cool cat. 卡里是只酷酷的小猫。 Cary can cut carrots like this. 卡里能像这样切胡萝卜。 Cary can climb a coconut tree like this. 卡里能像这样爬树。 Cary can clean a crocodile like this. 卡里能像这样清理鳄鱼。 Cary can catch flies like this. 卡里能像这样抓苍蝇。 Can Cary color like this? 卡里能像这样涂色吗？ Yes! Cary is a cool cat. 是的！卡里是只酷酷的小猫。 Lesson 4 Dancing Dad 爸爸爱跳舞
英语各种词性的用法 (2011-11-10 19:35:25) 转载▼ 标签： 杂谈 名词nouns分为专有名词(指人、地方、团体等特有的名称)普通名词(指人或东西或一个抽象的名称)用法，一般做主语，表语，动词宾语，介词宾语，状语，宾补。 冠词Art.本身没有意义，分为定冠词(表示名词为特定者)和不定冠词(用在单数名词前，表示一个)用法，用在名词前，帮助名词指明含义。 数词Num.表示数目的多少或顺序。用法，作主语，宾语，定语，表语，同位语。 代词Pronouns代替名词的，具有名词和形容词的作用。具体用法，第二次提到一些名词的时候，一般用代词代替。 形容词adjectives用来修饰名词，说明事物或人的性质或特征。用法，作定语，表语，宾补。副词adverbs修饰动词，形容词，副词，或整个句子。用法，作状语，定语，表语，宾补。动词verbs用来表示动作或状态，决定时态。用法，很广，一般作谓语。 介词prepositions一种虚词，不能单独在句子中作任何成分，需构成介词短语。介词短语用法，作定语，状语，表语，宾补。 主语Ｓ，是在句子中说明全局中心主体的部分。一般由名词、代词、不定式、或相当于名词的词(例如动名词)或短语来充当。它的位置一般在句首。 谓语Ｖ，是用来说明主语做什么、是什么、怎么样的。一般由简单动词或动词短语构成。位置在主语后面。 表语Ｐ是说明主语是什么、或者怎么样的。由名词、形容词、副词或介词短语、不定时式来构成的。位置在系动词后面。 宾语Ｏ，是动作行为的对象。由名词，代词，不定式或相当于名词的词、短语来担任。他和系动词一起说明主语做什么，在谓语之后。 宾补ＯＣ，就是宾语补足语。用来补充宾语不能完全表达完整的意思。 状语，用来修饰动词、副词、或形容词的。表示行为发生的时间、地点、方式、程度、目的等。由副词，介词短语，不定式，或相当于介词的词或短语来表示。位置在句末，或句首。定语，用来修饰名词或代词。形容词、代词、数词、名词、介词短语、不定式一般作定语。位置一般在动词后名词前。 注明，系动词包括ｂｅ动词，表示保持或变成某种状态的动词和感官动词。感官动词就是看、听、感觉等。表示保持或变成某种状态的动词有ｂｅｃｏｍｅ变得，ｋｅｅｐ保持，ｒｅｍａｉｎ保持，ｇｅｔ变得，ｐｒｏｖｅ证明，ｇｒｏｗ变得，ｔｕｒｎ变得，ｓｅｅｍ似乎，ａｐｐｅａｒ好像。 基本句型 1.S+V 2.S+V+O 3.S+V+P 4.S+V+O+OC 5.S+V+IO间接宾语+DO直接宾语
英语作文常用短语汇总by accident 偶然 on account of 因为，由于，为了…的缘故 in addition 另外，加之 in addition to 除…之外(还) in the air 流传中 on (the / an) average 通常，按平均值 on the basis of 根据，在…的基础上 at best 充其量，至多 for the better 好转，向好的方向发展 on board 在船(车或飞机)上 out of breath 喘不过气来 on business 因公，因事 in any case 无论如何，不管怎样 in case of 假如，如果发生;防备 in case 假使，以防(万一) in no case 决不，无论如何不 by chance 偶然，碰巧 in charge (of) 负责，管理 (a) round the clock 日夜不停地 in common 共用的，共有的 in conclusion 最后，总之 on condition (that) 如果 in confidence 私下地，秘密地 in connection with 关于，与…有关 in consequence 因此，结果 in consequence of 由于…的缘故，因为 on the contrary 正相反 in contrast with/to 与…对比起来，与…形成对比 out of control 失去控制 under control 处于控制之下 at all costs 不惜任何代价，无论如何 at the cost of以…为代价 in the course of 在…过程中，在…期间 of course 当然，自然 in danger 在危险中，垂危 out of danger 脱离危险 out of date 过时的，不用的 up to date 现代化的，切合目前情况的 in demand 非常需要的，受欢迎的
一年级攀登英语一级A教学计划 一年级攀登英语一级A教学计划 1、激发学生学习英语的兴趣,培养他们学习英语的积极态度,使他们初步建立学习英语的自信心。 2、培养学生具有一定的语感和良好的语音、语调及书写基础,以及良好的学习习惯。 3、培养学生的观察、记忆、思维、想象和创造能力。 一年级攀登英语一级A教学计划 (20**学年度第一学期) 本学期我担任一年级4个班的攀登英语教学工作,现我对本学期教学工作做如下计划: 一、学生情况分析 一年级的孩子的年龄多为6周岁,具有好奇、好活动、爱表现、善模仿等特点。他们的学习兴趣很浓,接受能力、模仿能力很强,学习习惯初步养成,因此在本学期应注重培养学生良好的学习习惯,训练学生的听说能力,调动他们的自主能动性、积极性,营造互帮互助,共同学习英语的语境。 二、教学目标 1、激发学生学习英语的兴趣,培养他们学习英语的积极态度,使他们初步建立学习英语的自信心。 2、培养学生具有一定的语感和良好的语音、语调及书写基础,以及良好的学习习惯。
3、培养学生的观察、记忆、思维、想象和创造能力能在图片、手势、情境等非语言提示的帮助下,听懂清晰的话语和录音。 三、教材分析 本书共由五部分构成:本册教材学习内容包括:日常英语(Everyday English)、歌曲童谣(Songs and Chants).动画英语(Cartoon English)等 1、日常英语:与学生日常生活密切相关的情景对话,共12个话题,每个话题包括2-4句情景对话。 2、动画英语:以《迪士尼神奇英语》(上)VCD为基本学习材料。 共6张VCD,12课,每课4个小节,由学生熟悉和喜欢的迪士尼动画片片段组合而成。 3、歌曲童谣:包括歌曲和童谣两大块,其中有精心制作的传统英文经典歌曲,也有攀登英语独创的童谣日常英语替换内容:以日常英语重 点句型为主线,结合歌曲童谣和动画英语中高频出现的词汇进行的开放性交替。 5、节奏英语:将日常英语替换内容编成12段朗朗上口的韵文,并 配以节奏明快的背景音乐形成的独特学习内容。 四、教学措施 1、考虑到小学生好动爱玩的特点,以活动为课堂教学的主要形式,设计丰富多彩的教学活动,让学生在乐中学、学中用,从而保证学生英 语学习的可持续性发展。 2、通过听、说、读、写、唱、游、演、画、做等形式,进行大量 的语言操练和练习。
英语词性的分类及用法 一、词性的分类 词类又叫词性，英语单词根据其在句子中的功用，可以分成十个大类。 1 名词noun n. student 学生 2 代词pronoun pron. you 你 3 形容词adjective adj. happy 高兴的 4 副词adverb adv. quickly 迅速地 5 动词verb v. cut 砍、割 6 数词numeral num. three 三 7 冠词article art. a 一个 8 介词preposition prep. at 在... 9 连词conjunction conj. and 和 10 感叹词interjection interj. oh 哦 前六类叫实词，后四类叫虚词。 二、名词 名词概论 名词复数的规则变化 其它名词复数的规则变化 1) 以y结尾的专有名词，或元音字母+y 结尾的名词变复数时，直接加s变复数：如：two Marys the Henrys monkey---monkeys holiday---holidays 2) 以o 结尾的名词，变复数时： a. 加s，如：photo---photos piano---pianos radio---radios zoo---zoos； b. 加es，如：potato—potatoes tomato—tomatoes 3) 以f或fe 结尾的名词变复数时： a. 加s，如：belief---beliefs roof---roofs safe---safes gulf---gulfs； b. 去f, fe 加-ves，如：half---halves
高考英语作文中常用的替换词 1.individuals, characters, folks 替换（ people, persons） 2.positive, favorable, rosy （美好的） ,promising（有希望的） ,perfect, pleasurable , excellent, outstanding, superior 替换 good 3.dreadful, unfavorable, poor, adverse, ill （有害的）替换 bad 如果 bad 做表语 ,可以有 be less impressive替换 eg.An army of college students indulge themselves in playing games, enjoying romance with girls/boys or killing time passively in their dorms. When it approaches to graduation , as a result, they find their academic records are less impressive. 4.（ an army of, an ocean of, a sea of, a multitude of, a host of, many, if not most）替 换 many. 注：用 many, if not most 一定要小心， many 后一定要有词。 most， if not all ，Eg. Many individuals ，if not most ，harbor the idea that同理?用. 替换 most. 5.a slice of, quiet a few, several替换 some 6.harbor the idea that, take the attitude that, hold the view that,it is widely shared that, it is universally acknowledged that）替 think （因为是书面语，所以要加 that） 7.affair, business, matter替换 thing 8.shared 替换 common 9.reap huge fruits 替换 get many benefits 10.for my part, from my own perspective 替换 in my opinion 11.Increasing（ly ）, growing 替换 more and more（注意没有 growingly 这种形式。所以当修饰名词时用 increasing/growing。修饰形容词，副词用 increasingly. Eg.sth has gained growing popularity. Sth is increasingly popular with the advancement of sth. 12.little if anything, 或 little or nothing 替换 hardly 13. ?? beneficial, rewarding替换 helpful 14.shopper,client, consumer, purchaser替换 customer 15.exceedingly, extremely, intensely替换 very 16.hardly necessary, hardly inevitable替换unnecessary,??avoidable
高考英语作文套路 Recently, the problem of …has aroused people's concern. 最近,……问题已引起人们的关注. （The Internet）has been playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life. It has brought a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well. （互联网）已在我们的生活中扮演着越来越重要的角色.它给我们带来了许多好处,但也产生了一些严重的问题. Nowadays, (overpopulation) has become a problem we have to face. 如今,(人口过剩)已成为我们不得不面对的问题了. It is commonly believed that …/ It is a common belief that … 人们一般认为…… Many people insist that …很多人坚持认为…… With the development of science and technology, more and more people believe that…随着科技的发展,越来越多的人认为…… A lot of people seem to think that …很多人似乎认为…… 引出不同观点: People's views on …vary from person to person. Some hold that …. However, others believe that…. 人们对……的观点因人而异.有些人认为……,然而其他人却认为……People may have different opinions on …人们对……可能会有不同的见解.
英语中各种词性的意义及用法 1、名词，Nouns (n.) 表示人或事物的名称的词，按意义分类 ①专有名词 表示具体的人，事物，地点，团体或机构的专有名称(第一个字母要大写)。例：China(中国)、Asia(亚洲)、the People’s Republic Of China(中华人民共和国)。 专有名词如果是含有名词短语，则必须使用定冠词the。如：the Great Wall(长城)。 姓氏名如果采用复数形式，则表示该姓氏一家人(复数含义)。如：the Greens(格林一家人)。 ②普通名词 表示某些人，某类事物，某种物质或抽象概念的名称。如： box, pen,tree,apple按是否可数分类 名词又可分为可数名词(Countable Nouns)和不可数名词(Uncountable Nouns) ①不可数名词 不可数名词是指不能以数目来计算，不可以分成个体的概念、状态、品质、感情或表 示物质材料的东西；它一般没有复数形式，只有单数形式，它的前面不能用不定冠词 a / an。抽象名词，物质名词和专有名词一般是不可数名词。 ②可数名词 可数名词是指能以数目来计算，可以分成个体的人或东西，因此它有复数形式。 2、代词，Pronouns (pron.)代替名词、数词、形容词的词，大多数代词具有名词和形 容词的功能。英语中的代词，按其意义、特征及在句中的作用分为：人称代词、物主代 词、指示代词、反身代词、相互代词、疑问代词、关系代词、连接代词和不定代词九种。 如：We, this, them, myself 3、动词，Verb (v.) 表示动作或状态的词，如：Jump,sing,visit，它又分为及物动 词和不及物动词两大类： ①及物动词：字典里词后标有transitive verb（vt.）的就是及物动词。及物动词后 一般必须跟有动作的对象（即宾语）。必须加宾语意思才完整的动词，就是及物动词。 ②不及物动词：不及物动词是不需要受词的动词。字典里词后标有intransitive verb （vi.）的就是不及物动词。不及物动词后不能直接跟有动作的对象（即宾语）。若要跟宾 语，必须先在其后添加上某个介词，如to,of ,at等后方可跟上宾语。 ③系动词：联系动词或称不完全不及物动词，虽有意义，但不完全，需要加名词、形 容词、代名词等作主词补语以补足其意义。常和形容词连用构成系表结构的连系动词有： look （看起来，看上去）， feel （感觉）， taste （尝起来）， smell （闻起来），get （变得），turn（变），become（成为，变得），sound （听起来）等。 例如： The weather gets warmer and the trees turn green in spring. 春天天气 变暖和了，树变绿了。 The flowers smell sweet. 这些花闻起来很香。 The soup taste nice. 这汤尝上去很好吃。
Fail to do sth. 没能做… Enable sb. to do sth. 使能做… Make sb. unable to do sth. 使不能做… Help do sth. 有助于做…,帮助做… Facilitate sth. Lack sth. 缺乏…动词短语 A lack of sth. 缺乏…名词短语 A shortage of sth.缺乏…名词短语 Run out of sth.用完… Exhaust sth.耗尽（资源） Confronted with sth. Be confronted with sth. 面临…; 面对…. Faced with sth. Be faced with sth.面临…; 面对…. In the face of面临…; 面对…. In the long run 长远来看 Long-term benefit 长期利益 Short-sighted 只顾眼前利益的，目光短浅的 Make remarkable achievement 做出杰出成就remarkable 可换Make outstanding contribution 做出杰出的贡献 Achieve something Achieve nothing 一事无成 Achieve success 取得成功 Achieve our goal达到目标
Hit our goal 达到目标 Contribute to our success 有助于我们的成功 Contribute to the development of society 对社会的发展作出贡献Enrich our experience/life 丰富我们的经历/生活 Add color/variety to our college life 为我们的大学生活增添色彩/多样性 Broaden our horizon开拓视野 Widen our scope of knowledge 拓宽知识面 Fierce/severe competition 激烈的竞争 Sharpen our competitive edge 增加我们的竞争优势 Take advantage of /make full use of 利用 Lay a solid foundation for 为…打下坚实的基础 Develop our interest发展兴趣 Offer the chance/opportunity to do sth.提供机会做… Offer help 提供帮助offer courses 开课 Afford sth. 支付得起时间金钱等 Afford to do sth. Pursue a better life追求更好的生活 Pursue one’s study求学 Enhance/improve/increase your ability 增强你的能力 Enhance/strengthen the relationship 改善/加强关系 Boost
高中英语作文万能模式：英语书信类作文写 作模板 书信： 【高分套路】 但凡应试书信，逃不出三种段落： 开头段：四大内容 1、问候； 2、自我介绍； 3、写信背景；为什么会写这封信 4、写信目的；写这封信想达到什么目的 中间段：具体问题+具体分析； 结尾段：客套话； 口诀： 开门见山说意图 咨询建议123 不同内容可分段 感谢客气不可少 期待回信成老套 【经典套话】 （一）开头段：灵活地去写四种内容：
1、问候； How are you doing? How is everything going? How is life treating you? 2、自我介绍； I am LiHua, a 17-year-old boy currently studying in XXX middle school. I am LiHua, who... 【李华同志的个人简历】 由于我们在考场上的身份几乎年年都是李华，因此我们在这里有必要了解一下李华同志的一些个人情况。当然，这位同志的个人情况是可以有我们自己人为设置的。为了给阅卷老师留下一个好印象，我们将李华同志的个人简历概括为：一个人见人爱的好孩子。 hardworking diligent help my parents to do housework take part in CCTV national English speech competition won the second prize in CCTV national English speech competition vice monitor
vice chairman of the students’union worked as a volunteer for the Olympic Games worked as a volunteer for the 21st century have many foreign friends and often chat with them happily in starbark. 3、写信背景（写信的缘由） I heard that ... My teacher told me... I am informed that... I learned that...我得知... I read in your newspaper/ micro-blog /website that... You said in your last letter that... 4、写信目的； Now, I am writing to do sth. Now, I am writing this letter to do sth. Now, I am writing these few lines to do sth. 【七种最常见书信的“写信目的”部分的最佳写法】 自荐信： Now, I am writing to apply for the job/position. 感谢信: Now, I am writing to show/ express my heartfelt gratitude to you.
英语作文常用动词锦集 1解决: Solve, deal with, cope with, handle, resolve, address, tackle 2损害： Damage, hurt, injure, harm, impair, undermine, jeopardize 3给与：Give, offer, render, impart, provide, supply, afford 4培养：：Develop, cultivate, foster 5优势：Advantage, merit, virtue, benefit, upside, strength 6 缺陷：Disadvantage, demerit, drawback, downside, weakness 7 使迷惑：Puzzle, bewilder, perplex, baffle 8 重要的：Key, crucial, critical, important, significant, vital, substantial, indispensable, imperative 9 认为：Think, believe, insist, maintain, assert, conclude, deem, hold, argue, be convinced, be firmly convinced, be fully convinced 10 保护：Protect, conserve, preserve 11确保：Assure, ensure, guarantee, pledge 12 有害的： Bad, baneful evil, harmful, detrimental 13 要求：Request, demand, needs, requisition 14 消除：Eliminate, clear, remove, clear up, take away, smooth away 15 导致： Lead to, bring about, result in, cause, spark off, conduce to, procure, induce, generate
（一）My View／Opinions／Ideas．．．on．．．题型套路1： (Lead-in sentence… ) People's view／opinions／ideas．．．on．．．vary from person to person．Some people think that．．．they hold this opinion because．．． However，others hold that．．．,because… As to me, I am in favor of the f irst/second idea(I think those who think that…are right/neither of the two ideas is right)．The following are the reasons for my choice(personal inclination)．First(Firstly/First of all), … , Second(Secondly/Besides)，．．．,… /(because…) Therefore／In a word／From the above analysis/Admittedly,．．． My View on Donating Blood Nowadays, we often talk about donating blood. People's ideas about donating blood vary from person to person．Some people think th at it is glorious to donate blood．They hold this opinion because those who are in urgent need of blood can be saved．However，others hold that it is foolish for people to donate blood．In their opinion，blood is very precious and losing 200ml or more may do harm to their health． As to me I am in favor of the first idea．The following are the reasons for my choice．First，while it is true that the loss of too much blood is dangerous to one's health，it does not mean that donating a little blood is also harmful．On the contrary，doctors say that donating a little blood can promote metabolism．Second，there are many people who need our help．If my little donation of blood can pull back somebody on the way to death，will there be anything that can make me happier？ In a word，donating blood is glorious．套路2： (Lead-in sentence… ) Different people have different views on ．．．It is held that．．．But it is also held that．．． Those who hold the first opinion…, because… .In contrast，those who hold the second view．．．,because… As to me，I agree with the former( latter )opinion(view, idea),because… . My View on Friendship Friendship is very important to all of us. It is wealth. Different people have different views on friendship．It is held that a friend in need is a friend indeed．But it is also held that friendship means understanding each other． Those who hold the first opinion often ask their friends for help when necessary．They regard those who help them as friends but regard those who don't help them as mere acquaintances．In contrast，those who hold the second view believe that they have no right to ask their friends to do everything for them，especially those things that might be inconvenient for their friends． As to me，I agree with the latter opinion．Admittedly，friends should help each other，but this is not to say that friends must agree to offer help in any circumstances．If we want to keep our friendship，we should cherish it but not use it．What's more，it should be understood that with the modern pace of living most people are busy．They may not have time to lend their friends a hand on short notice．In a word，understanding is preferable to need．
英语词性的分类及用法 词类又叫词性，英语单词根据其在句子中的功用，可以分成十个大类。 1 名词noun n. student 学生 2 代词pronoun pron. you 你 3 形容词adjective adj. happy 高兴的 4 副词adverb adv. quickly 迅速地 5 动词verb v. cut 砍、割 6 数词numeral num. three 三 7 冠词article art. a 一个8 介词preposition prep. at 在... 9 连词conjunction conj. and 和10 感叹词interjection interj. oh 哦 前六类叫实词，后四类叫虚词。 名词(表示人或物名称的词) ?名词可以分为专有名词和普通名词. ?专有名词是某个（些）人，地方，机构等专有的名称，如Beijing，China, the United States,等。 ?普通名词是一类人或东西或是一个抽象概念的名词，如：book，sadness等。(普 通名词包括可数名词和不可数名词) ?普通名词又可分为下面四类： 1）个体名词：表示某类人或东西中的个体，如：gun 2）集体名词：表示若干个个体组成的集合体，如:family ?(以上两类属于可数名词) 3）物质名词：表示无法分为个体的实物，如:air 4）抽象名词：表示动作、状态、品质、感情等抽象概念，如：work ?(以上两类属于不可数名词) 代词(代替名词的词) ?代词可以分为下列九类： ? 1. 人称代词：They are my school mates. ? 2. 物主代词：Our friends have great concern for each other. ? 3. 反身代词：Take good care of yourselves. ? 4. 相互代词：We should help each other. ? 5. 指示代词：Who are these people? ? 6. 疑问代词：What are you doing? ?7. 关系代词：She married Tony Harper, who is a student too. ?8. 连接代词：Do you know who did it? ?9. 不定代词：Do you know anything about it? ? ?代词是非常活跃的词，特别是不定代词，比较复杂，我们要熟练掌握。 形容词(修饰名词等，说明事物或人的性质或特征的词) ?形容词可分成性质形容词和叙述形容词两类，其位置不一定都放在名词前面。 1) 直接说明事物的性质或特征的形容词是性质形容词，它有级的变化，可以用程度 副词修饰，在句中可作定语、表语和补语。例如：hot ,good ,wonderful等. 2) 叙述形容词只能作表语，所以又称为表语形容词。这类形容词没有级的变化，也 不可用程度副词修饰。大多数以a开头的形容词都属于这一类。例如：afraid, alone 等.
（冒号前面的是我们习惯想到的词，考试中尽量少用！一定要用后面的词去替换前面）We, everyone: any reasonable/sensitive soul/mind, talented minds, elite minds, versatile minds, personality, figures, celebrity, idiots, philosophic minds, genius More and more: increasingly, Big: enormous, tremendous, gigantic, titanic, astronomical, vast, boundless, Very: extremely, overwhelmingly, undeniably, remarkably, voluminously, excessively, exceedingly, tangibly, impressively, shockingly, Famous: renowned, celebrated, accomplished, distinguished, prominent, eminent, outstanding, preeminent, Good: spectacular, amazing, unbelievable, incredible, magnificent, adorable, fantastic, fascinating, admirable, respectable, cherishable, adorable, awesome, terrific, majestic, Bad: nightmarish, disgusting, despicable, monstrous, appalling, abhorring, repelling, repulsive, Important: significant, essential, basic, fundamental, indispensable, crucial, critical, decisive, determinant, dominant, predominant, infallible, Say, Believe，think: suppose, hold, claim, maintain, presume, assume, contend, argue, declare, I am convinced, conclude, Improve, better: further, promote, enhance, reinforce, strengthen, consolidate, cement, nurture, relieve, recover, Everyone knows: it’s a truth universally acknowledged t hat, It can never be denied, it is undeniable that，It goes without saying that，It is self evident that，It is highly advisably, imperative, remarkable that，It comforts one to know that… ◆常见替代词汇解释 1. accelerate: 后面接名词，表示“加速”，中性词，好事坏事都能用。 2. adequate: “足够的”，用来替代经常被使用的enough。 3. advance: 名词，“进步，发展”，用来替代文章开头经常使用的development，progress。 4. advisable / sensible / rational: “合理的”，都可以替代reasonable。 5. cannot afford to: “不应当做”，不是我们说的“负担不起”。 6. be alert to something: “对…保持警惕”，后面接消极概念。 7. alternative: “其他的选择或办法”，比如an alternative is that… 相当于in addition（除此之外）。 8. applicable / feasible / workable: 都表示“可行的”，用在政策、法令、手段等词前面做修饰语，既可增加字长，又可以提高词汇水平。 9. approach / channel: “方法，手段”，用来替代我们经常使用的一些简单词汇，如method 等。 10. approve of something: “批准，同意”，注意不要忘记介词of。 11. attach importance to something: 表示“重视，强调”，替代pay attention to。