状语从句用法详解
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1 状语从句用法详解 内容提要: 一、时间状语从句 二、地点状语从句 三、方式状语从句 四、程度状语从句 五、原因状语从句 六、结果状语从句 七、目的状语从句 八、条件状语从句 九、让步状语从句 十、比较状语从句
一、时间状语从句: 1、时间状语从句通常用下列从属连词来引导:after, before, as, once, till, until, (ever) since, when, whenever, while, now (that), as long as, as soon as。如:
Now (that) you’ve grown up, you must stop this childish behaviour. Whenever we met with difficulties, they came to help us. Come and see us whenever you have time. 2
People do not know the value of health till they lose it. 2、有些词,如 immediately, directly, instantly 等,当用于 as soon as 意义时,也可以引导时间状语从句,如:
I got in touch with him immediately I received his letter. My sister came directly she got my message. The machine will start instantly you press the button. I’ll telephone you directly I hear the news. Will you look for it immediately you get there?
3.某些表示时间的名词词组,如 the (very) moment ( = as soon as ), the minute ( = as soon as ), the instant ( = as soon as ), the day, the year, the morning, every time, each time, next time, the first time 等,也可以引导时间状语从句,如:
I’ll tell you about it the moment you come. I started the instant I heard the report. The instant she saw him she knew he was her brother. Every time I catch a cold, I have pain in my back. I’m going to see him next time he comes to Shenzhen. He left Europe the year World WarⅡbroke out. 3
He had impressed me that way the first time I met him. I started the very moment I got your letter. I’ll tell him the minute (that) he gets here.
4.有些关联从属连词,如 no sooner „ than / hardly „ when / scarcely „ when / barely „when 等,也能引导时间状语从句。
△ 如果把 no sooner, hardly, scarcely, barely 置于句首,它所连带的这部分就要倒装,如:
She had no sooner heard the news than she fainted. = No sooner had she heard the news than she fainted.
They had hardly started to work when the trouble began. = Hardly had they started to work when the trouble began.
He had scarcely entered the room when the phone rang. = Scarcely had he entered the room when the phone rang. 4
二、地点状语从句: 1、地点状语从句常用where, wherever 来引导,如:
We will stay where you stay. (where = in the place in which; where 既连接主句与从句,又在从句中作副词修饰谓语stay。)
I found my books where I left them. Wherever he happens to be, John can make himself at home. He will work wherever the people need him. Let me go wherever (= to any place to which) they like (to go).
2、有时,- where 构成的复合词也可以引导地点状语从句,如: Everywhere they went, they were kindly received / warmly welcomed. We’ll go anywhere the Party directs us. 5
三、方式状语从句: 1、方式状语从句通常由 as, as if, as though 来引导,如:
You must do the exercises as I show you. Please do exactly as your doctor says. It looks as if it might snow / is going to snow. He acted as if / though nothing had happened. He walked as if he was / were drunk. Mary was behaving as though she hadn’t grown up.
2、在非正式文体或口语中,也可用 the way (that) (= as = in the way in which), how, like 等来引导,如:
Jean doesn’t do it the way I do. She is doing her work the way I like it done. You can do the job how you like. The landlord was watching him like (= just as) a cat watches a mouse. Do you make bread like you make cakes?
like 作连词的用法补充说明: 1). Conjunction (informal)(非正式):in the same way that; as 同„一样,如 6
People who change countries like they change clothes. 换国籍像换衣服一样的人。 2). as though; as if 好像,如同 I felt like I'd been kicked by a camel. 我觉得好像被骆驼踢了似的。
四、程度状语从句: 程度状语从句可用 to such an extent that … / to such a degree that … , to the degree/ extent that, in so far as (“在…的范围内”)等来引导,如: The temperature rose to such an extent that the firemen had to leave the burning building. The temperature lowered to such a degree that the water froze.
试比较: The temperature rose so high that the firemen had to leave the burning building. The temperature lowered so much that the water froze. 从以上例句可以看出,程度状语从句往往也表示达到某种程度时所引出的结果,所以程度状语从句和结果状语从句在意义上有相通之处。 7
At that time politicians were not known to the degree that they are today. 那时政治家们并不像今天这样为人所知晓。 I'll help you in so far as I can. 我会尽我所能帮助你。
五、原因状语从句: 1、引导原因状语从句最常用的连词是 because, since, 和as,所引导的从句可以放在主句之前,也可放在主句之后。其中 because 语势最强,since 次之,as 又次之。
△ because通常表示说话人认为这种理由或原因是听话人所不知道的,全句强调的重点在原因上,不在主句表示的结果上。回答why提出的问题时,只能用because;在强调句型中也只能用because从句,不能用since, as等,如:
Because I can’t see very well, I have to sit near the front. It was because he was ill that he didn’t go with us. It was because he was ill that he didn’t come.