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课件网) 冠词使用总结 一. 冠词的泛指、特指 泛指是指首次提到的、不限定的人或事物。特指是指在上文已提到的人或事物， 也可以说是指说话双方心目中所默认的特定的人或事物。 冠词的泛、特指用法归纳如下： 泛指： a/an+ 单数名词。 如： A horse is enough. （表数量） An apple a day, the doctor away. (表数量） 2. a/an+单数名词。 A horse is a large four-legged animal. (强调类别中的任何一个特点） the + 单数名词。 如： I think the most useful animal is the horse.(强调整个类别） 零冠词+复数名词或不可数名词。如： Horses are useful animals.（强调类别中的许多个体） 特指： the +单数名词。 如： What is the price of the suit What do you mean by shutting the door so loudly the + 复数名词。如： I am the less surprised at what has happened from that knowledge of what the manners of the great really are, which my situation in life has allowed me to acquire. the+不可数名词。如： As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park. 二. 不定冠词 1.不定冠词有a, an两种形式，当紧跟着冠词的第一个音素为辅音音素时，用___; 当紧跟着冠词的第一个音素为元音音素时，用____。 如： 1).Oxford University is ___ university with a history of more than 1,000 years; 2).___ unique, special, talented and amazing child named Mozart has become a famous musician; 3).___ one-eyed dog is wandering on the street; ___ hour ago, he went to the grocery store. 4).Michael, ____ honest boy, refuses to help the man on the street. a an a A An An an 5). ____ X-ray scan is needed to detect his illness. 6).Vulcan, ____ ugly man, who is also called Hephaestus, is the husband of Venus. 7).I earn 10 dollars ___ hour as ___ supermarket cashier on Saturdays. 8).The teacher asked us to write ___ 800-word-long composition. 9). Christmas is ___ special holiday when the whole family are supposed to get together. 10). The are twins, so they are of ___ age. An an an a an a an 2. a, an 表示one, the same或every的意思。 如： Moreover, we are both of an age, and this journey has brought us together still more closely. But as Telemachus was thus busied, praying also and sacrificing to Minerva [m n rv ] in the ship’s stern, there came to him a man from a distant country, a seer [s r], who was flying from Argos because he had killed a man. 3.不定冠词的特殊位置 1）”so /as/too/how/however+a.+a/an +单数 名词“。 如： This is so interesting a film that we all want to see it. He is as good as a student as you are. He is too young a boy to join the army. How clever a boy he is! What a clever boy he is! How clever the boy is! However clever a man he is, he can’t learn English well without enough practice. 2). quite, rather 与单数名词连用且名词前有形容词修饰时，其顺序为： “a rather+a.+单数名词”或“ rather/quite+a/an+a.+单数名词”。 如： With a rather absent-minded air O'Brien pushed them towards the others, took one himself, then stood up and began to pace slowly to and fro, as though he could think better standing. They were brown, he noted, a rat ... ...
