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.
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