形容词的位置多个形容词作定语时的排列顺序
1.形容词后置 修饰somebody, someone, something, anybody, anyone, anything, nobody, nothing等复合不定代词的形容词,则必须放在不定代词之后。
This isn’t anything important.
这并不是什么重要的东西。
形容词短语作定语必须放在所修饰的名词之后。
We need a place twice larger than this one.
我们需要一个比这里大一倍的地方。
有时成对的形容词作定语,考虑到句子的节奏和平衡,可以后置。
There was a huge cupboard, simple and beautiful.
有一个大食橱,简朴而美观。
当表语形容词作定语时必须放在所修饰的名词之后。 He must be the best violinist alive. 他一定是当代最好的小提琴手了。
2.多个形容词作定语时的排列顺序
大小、长短、高低形状/年龄、新旧颜色/来源、国籍、地区、出处/材料/用途(熟记下列顺口溜:限定描绘大长高,形状年龄和新老,颜色国籍跟材料,作用类别往后靠)。
一句话经典:(一个美小圆旧黄,英国木书房)A beautiful small round old yellow British wooden study house.
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有的形容词前置和后置均可,但含义不同。
What’s your present feeling? 你现在感觉如何? (present=现在的)
He was the only Englishman present.
他是唯一在场的英国人。(present=在场的)
有些既可用作形容词又可用作副词的词,当它用作形容词时前置,用作副词时后置。
upstairs rooms / rooms upstairs 楼上的房间
3.既可位于所修饰的名词之前,也可位于其之后。
当past, last, next, nearby, following等作定语时,既可放在所修饰的名词之前,也可放在所修饰的名词之后。
the following days / the days following 以后的日子
1:
____ by the advances in technology, many farmers have set up wind farms on their land.
A. Being encouraged
B. Encouraging
C. Encouraged
D. Having encouraged
2:
The sick child requires ____.
A. being looked after
B. to look after
C. to be looked after
D. look after
3:
The flowers haven’t been watered for five days. They want ____.
A. water
B. being watered
C. watered
D. to be watered
4:
Please do me a favor — ______ my friend Mr. Smith to Youth Theater at 7:30 tonight.
A. to invite
B. inviting
C. invite
D. invited
5:
______with farmers in the country in your summer vacation, and you will learn a lot about farming
A. Work
B. Working
C. To work
D. Having worked
6:
His first book ________next month is based on a true story.
A. published
B. to be published
C. to publish
D. being published
7:
It’s reported that the bridge _______ next year will be very long.
A. being built
B. building
C. to be built
D. built
8:
________ such heavy pollution already, it may now be too late to clean up the river.
A. Having suffered
B. Suffering
C. To suffer
D. Suffered
9:
Dina, _____for months to find a job as a waitress,finally took a position at a local advertising agency.
A. struggling
B. struggled
C. having struggled
D. to struggle
10:
The question is very difficult _______.
A. to answer B. to be answered
C. answered
D. answering
