每课一句:新概念英语第1册第17课
【往期回顾】
接下来,我们就来看看第17课的“每课一句”。
一、课文原文
Lesson 17 How do you do
Come and meet our employees, Mr. Richards.
Thank you, Mr. Jackson.
This is Nicola Grey, and this is Claire Taylor.
How do you do?
Those women are very hard-working.
What are their jobs?
They’re keyboard operators.
This is Michael Baker, and this is Jeremy Short.
How do you do?
They aren’t very busy!
What are their jobs?
They’re sales reps.
They are very lazy.
Who is this young man?
This is Jim.
He is our office assistant.
——选自《新概念英语》第一册,外语教学与研究出版社,1997年10月第1版
二、每课一句
Those women are very hard-working.
我们在第1册第15课里学习过了名词复数的规则变化,具体内容大家可参看下面的文章:
本课里将继续学习名词复数的其他规则变化以及不规则变化。
3、以f或fe结尾的名词,改f或fe为v,再加es。如:
leaf - leaves, wife - wives
这种情况下,也有两种改法都可以的单词,如handkerchief(手帕)的复数为:
handkerchiefs或handkerchieves
4、单复数相同。如:
one sheep - two sheep, one deer - three deer, Chinese - four Chinese
5、不规则变化
以下为常见的不规则变化词例。
1)man或woman
其复数是把a改为e,即:
men或women
注意如果man或woman用作定语,修饰其他名词时,复数情况下,它们本身也要改为复数。如:
a man teacher - five men teachers
a woman doctor - ten women doctors
2)oo改为ee
比如:
foot - feet, goose - geese
3)um改为a
比如:
medium - media, datum - data
4)ouse改为ice
mouse - mice, louse - lice
5)词尾加en
比如:
ox - oxen, child - children
三、更多拓展
Who is this young man?
注意疑问代词who既可以用作主格,作句子的主语。who也可以用作宾格,作句子的宾语,此时相当于whom。如:
1、作主格
Who is that woman in the red hat?
戴红色帽子的那个女人是谁?
上句中的who就是整个句子的主语,其谓语为系表结构“is the woman in the red hat”。
2、作宾格
Who will you visit this week?
这周你要去看谁?
上句中的who用作visit的宾语。
【改错】
For who are you looking for?
尽管who可以用作宾格,作动词或介词的宾语,但是如果紧跟介词后面的话,只能用whom,不能用who。所以,上面这句话要改为:
For whom are you looking for?
当然,也可以通过把介词后置来修改,即:
Who are you looking for?
或
Whom are you looking for?