刚刚在某网站上看到有人说:
“……英语中最常讨论的恰好就是‘选他当班长’这一句,在这里‘班长’一定是光杆名词。
a. [*(The) captain of the team] will visit us tomorrow. (the obligatory in argument position)
b. We elected him [captain of the team]. (the not required in predicate position)”
这段话是什么意思呢?
顾名思义,“光杆名词”就是说这个名词之前没有任何限定修饰语(如没有:a, the, this, that, his, each等修饰),就像“光杆司令”那样,单独用在句子中。英文是:bare noun。
语法书在论述冠词时,可数名词单数在句中本应加冠词,但使用时却是“零冠词”,而且不带任何其他限定词。例如:
We elected him monitor. 我们选他当班长。
a. [*(The) captain of the team] will visit us tomorrow. (the obligatory in argument position)
意为:唯一职务的名词作主语时,要加冠词the,不可省略。
b. We elected him [captain of the team]. (the not required in predicate position)
意为:唯一职务的名词作宾补时,冠词the不需要。
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