2013年GCT英语语法精讲：形容词、副词

形容词在句中做定语、表语和主语。考生应注意：

(1)以 “a” 开头的形容词如alone, alike, asleep, awake等不能做前置定语，可做表语或后置定语。

(2)某些以副词词缀 “-ly” 结尾的词是形容词，如friendly, leisurely, lovely等。

(3)下列动词既是实义动词又是系动词，注意用做系动词时，要求形容词做表语：remain, keep, become, get, grow, go, come, turn, stay, stand, run, prove, seem, appear, look。如：

All those left undone may sound great in theory, but even the truest believer has great difficulty when it comes to specifics.

2.副词主要测试其修饰作用

考生应了解：副词可修饰谓语动词、非谓语动词、形容词、副词、介词短语、整个句子。如：

This pair of shoes isn’t good, but that pair is hardly better.

(与前半句的否定意义吻合)

It’s essential that people be psychologically able to resist the impact brought about by the transition from planned economy to market economy.

Andrew, my father’s younger brother, will not be at the picnic, much to the family’s disappointment.

Most of us are of the opinion that this set of training program is among the most wisely devised ones we have seen so far.

3.考比较级时，考生应把握

(1)形容词和副词比较级的形式是否和比较连词对应出现，即是否符合原级比较及比较级的结构。如：

Do you enjoy listening to records? I find records are often as good as, or better than an actual performance.

On the whole, ambitious students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are those with little ambition.

(2)比较的成分是否属于同类事物或同类概念。如：

The number of registered participants in this year’s marathon was half that of last year’s.

Young readers, more often than not, find the novels of Dickens far more exciting than Thackeray’s.

(3)比较级的修饰语如 a little, a lot, the, any, even, far, hardly, lots, much, rather，还有表示倍数比较的词等，他们的位置是：修饰语+as…as…, 或修饰语+more…than…。如：

Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills seven times more people each year than automobile accidents.

“Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?” “No, I would gladly have paid twice as much for it.”

(4)下列词和短语不用比较级形式却表示比较概念：

inferior，minor，senior，prior，prefer to，superior，major，junior，preferable，differ from，compared with，in comparison with，different from，rather than。如：

Their watch is superior to all the other watches on the market.