高中常見(jiàn)動(dòng)詞的錯(cuò)誤用法
英語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞是所有詞類中最易犯錯(cuò)的一種,許多英語(yǔ)運(yùn)用上的毛病都和動(dòng)詞有關(guān)。有時(shí),連常用的動(dòng)詞都會(huì)有用法上的錯(cuò)誤。例如有些動(dòng)詞意思相近,其實(shí)不盡然。至少,在用法上,會(huì)有所差別,如“rise”和“raise”,“stay”和“remain”便是。有些動(dòng)詞,單獨(dú)用時(shí)是一個(gè)意思和用法,加上介詞時(shí),是另一個(gè)意思和用法,如“see”和“see to”,“search”和“search for”便是。
下面就來(lái)詳細(xì)談?wù)?。先看這兩個(gè)句子:
(1)Sam raises very early every morning.
(2)The monitor rises his hand to ask a question.
大家知道,raise是個(gè)及物動(dòng)詞,意思是“舉起”,要有賓語(yǔ);rise是個(gè)不及物動(dòng)詞,意思是“起身”,不可有賓語(yǔ)。這里的(1)和(2)都錯(cuò);raises和rises必須對(duì)換才對(duì)。
(3)He remained in the Holiday Inn.
(4)The flowers stayed on the branches.
英語(yǔ)的remain是“留下來(lái)”;stay是“暫住”。顯然的,(3)和(4)是不合邏輯的,remained和stayed必須互換。
(5)A crook robbed her money.
(6)雖然robbed和stole都是及物動(dòng)詞,有自己的賓語(yǔ),但是它們?cè)谶@里的用法不當(dāng)。Steal要跟著被偷的東西,如錢(qián)財(cái)、珠寶等;rob的賓語(yǔ)是“人”或“處所”。因此,(5)和(6)的robbed和stole要掉轉(zhuǎn)一下。
類似的例子還有下面這些:
(7)這兩個(gè)動(dòng)詞都是“修理”;不同的是:簡(jiǎn)單的工作,用mend;復(fù)雜的或需要特別儀器的事項(xiàng),則用repair,如:
(7)a. You can mend the broken part of the page with glue.
(7)b. It took some time to repair the road.
(8)a. burned b. burnt
這兩個(gè)動(dòng)詞是burn的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞;在句子中的崗位不同,通常有賓語(yǔ)時(shí)用“burnt”,沒(méi)賓語(yǔ)時(shí)用“burned”,如:
(8)a. The love of freedom burned in our hearts./ The candle has burned brightly for the whole night.
(8)b. Who has burnt the paper?/ Jane burnt all the letters from her former boyfriend.
至于“動(dòng)詞”和“助動(dòng)+介詞”的誤用,我們可以看下面兩組例子:
(9)The police searched the suspects in the shopping centre, but nobody was arrested.
(10)I searched for my pocket and found some coins.
從語(yǔ)感就知道,(9)和(10)里的searched和searched for是倒置了。(9)要的是“尋找”(searched for);(10)要的是“檢查”(searched),兩者對(duì)換才是。
(11)The boy says when he grows, he will be a teacher.
(12)Their business grows up rapidly.
英語(yǔ)的grow是“發(fā)展”;grow up是“長(zhǎng)大”。顯然的,(11)和(12)的兩個(gè)動(dòng)詞又誤用了,要對(duì)調(diào)一下。
上面各例證明,英語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞真是不簡(jiǎn)單??此茮](méi)什么問(wèn)題的,也出現(xiàn)了問(wèn)題,更何況是復(fù)雜特殊的用法呢?