2)连接副词:
连接副词意思和词形都和疑问副词一样,但都引导从句或与不定式连用:
how: That’s how I look at it. 这是我的看法。(引导表语从句)
Do you know how to start this machine? 你知道这台机器怎样启动吗?(引导不定式短语)
where: I don’t know where he lives. 我不知道他住在哪儿。(引导宾语从句)
I can’t decide where to go for my holidays. 我不能决定去哪度假。(引导不定式短语)
when: Tell me when you’ll be ready. 告诉我你什么时候准备好。(引导宾语从句)
Tell me when to use this construction. 告诉我什么时候用这种结构。(引导不定式短语)
why: That’s why I came round. 这就是我来的原因。(引导表语从句)
3)关系副词:
关系副词可引导关系从句作宾语:
where:We then moved to Paris, where we lived for 6 years. 此后我们搬到巴黎,在那里住了6年。
when: There came a day when the rain fell in torrents. 有一天下起了倾盆大雨。
why: The reason why he came is not very convincing. 他来的理由不太有说服力。
6.句子副词
1) 有些副词并不修饰动词,而是修饰整个句子,表示说话人的看法:
I can’t come, unfortunately. 真不巧,我来不了。
Hopefully We’ll win. 但愿我们能赢。
Surprisingly, she has married again. 另人惊讶的是,她又结婚了。
Seriously now, you ought to take more care of your health. 说真的,你应当多注意身体。
2)有少数副词可以和enough连用,起同样的作用:
I thought it would rain, and sure enough it did. 我想天会下雨,结果果然如此。
Oddly enough I had no doubt that he would be glad to see me. 说也奇怪,我毫不怀疑他会高兴见我。
Curiously enough he had never seen the little girl. 说也奇怪,他从未见过这个小姑娘。
6. 一些其它类型的副词
除了以上这些类型的副词外,还有一些其他类型的副词,例如:
1)表示方向的副词:
Let’s go inside. 咱们到里面去。
Take two steps forward. 向前走两步。
2)使与上文连接更紧的副词:
He was different, however, from the others. 不过他和别人不同。
Nevertheless, she decided to act. 尽管如此,他决定采取行动。
3)表示 “方面”的副词:
They suffered economically as a result of that policy. 由于那项政策,他们在经济上受了损失。
Financially we are doing quite well. 在经济方面我们情况良好。
It’s politically short-sighted not to recognize this. 不认识这一点在政治上是短视的。
三、副词的位置
1. 副词修饰动词时,通常可以放在句首、句中或句末。如:
Usually I do my homework in the evening. (句首) 通常我晚上做家庭作业。
I often get up at six. (句中) 我常在6点起床。
Please speak slowly. (句末) 请慢慢说。
2. 副词修饰形容词或副词时,通常放在形容词或副词的前面,但也有例外。如:
These flowers are quite beautiful. (在形容词前) 这些花相当漂亮。
He works very hard. (在副词前)他工作很努力。
She is old enough to go to school. (在形容词后)她已到了上学的年龄。
3. 按一般规则,如果有几个时间状语,单位大的应放在单位小的后面。如:
The film will begin at seven o’clock this evening. 电影今晚7点开演。
I was born at two o’clock on the morning of May15.
4. 按一般规则, 既有地点状语又有时间状语时,地点状语应放在时间状语之前。如:
We had a meeting in the classroom yesterday afternoon. 我们昨天下午在教室开了一个会。
He watched TV at home last night. 他昨晚在家看电视。
四、副词的比较级和最高级
1. 副词的比较级和最高级的构成
副词和形容词一样,也有原级、比较级和最高级三个等级。其构成方式有规则变化和
不规则变化两种情况。规则变化的一般规律是:单音节词的比较级和最高级在词尾加-er或
-est; 多音节词以及-ly结尾的副词(early除外),前面须加more 或most. 不规则的变化式
只能采用“各个击破”的办法去记忆。
1)规则变化
|
原级 |
比较级 |
最高级 |
|
soon
long
loud
fast
wide
early
happily
carefully |
sooner
longer
louder
faster
wider
earlier
more happily
more carefully |
soonest
longest
loudest
fastest
widest
earliest
most happily
most carefully |
2)不规则变化
|
原级 |
比较级 |
最高级 |
|
well
badly
little
much
far |
better
worse
less
more
farther
further |
best
worst
least
most
farthest
furthest |
3副词的比较级的用法
1)单独使用:
Try to do better next time. 下次争取干好一点。
I had seen the film only a few days earlier. 我是几天前才看的这部电影。
He’ll come back sooner or later. 他迟早会回来的。
Please speak more slowly. 请讲慢一点。
I determined not to travel farther that night. 我决定那天晚上不再往前走了。
2)和than一起使用:
He swims better than I do. 他游泳游得比我好。
He works less than he used to. 他工作的时间比以前少了。
Can you do any better than that? 你能不能干的好一些?
He arrived earlier than usual. 他到的比平时早。
He studied the subject further than I do. 这问题他研究得比我深。
3) 比较级前可有状语修饰:
You must work much faster. 你必须大大加快干活的速度。
He walked no further. 他没在往前走。
She could dance even more gracefully than a dancer. 她能比舞蹈演员跳的更美。
Helen came late, but her sister came still later. 海伦来晚了, 而她妹妹来得更晚。
Can you come over a bit more quickly? 你能稍稍快点来吗?
4. as…as和not so…as结构
这两个结构也可结合副词使用:
1) as…as 可用在肯定句中,表示 “像…一样”,后面的副词要用原级:
She can run as fast as a deer. 她能跑的像鹿一样快。
They work as hard as you do. 他们工作像你一样努力。
I hate him as much as you do. 我像你一样恨他。
I’ll be round as quick as I can. 我将尽快过来。
2)在否定句中,as…as和so…as都可以用:
I don’t go there as much as I used. 我现在到那里不象过去那么多了。
I didn’t do as(so) well as I should. 我做的不如我应做的那么好。
I can’t jump so(as)loudly as Bill. 我跳高不如比尔。
I don’t like it so (as) your other works. 我喜欢它不及你的其他作品。
3)这种句子中也可以有一个表示程度的状语:
I don’t speak half as (so) well as you. 我讲的不及你的一半好。
She can read twice as fast as he does. 她阅读的速度比他快一倍。
The substance reacts three times as fast as the other one. 这种物质的反应速度是另一种物质的三倍。
5.副词最高级的用法
副词最高级可修饰动词,前面多数不带定冠词the:
He laughs best who laughs last. (谚语) 谁笑在最后谁笑的最好。
Of the four of us, I sang (the) worst. 我们四人中我唱的最差。
Of these sports, I like rowing most. 这些运动中我最喜欢划船。
He went (the) farthest of the explorers. 这些探险家中他走的最远。
He likes painting best of all. 他最喜欢绘画。
Who arrived (the) earliest of all? 谁到的最早?
She behaved most generously. 她表现的最大方。
6. 副词比较级和最高级的一些特殊用法
副词比较级和最高级还可用在一些特别结构或短语中:
1)more and more 越来越…:
It rained more and more heavily. 雨下得越来越大了。
In need, she liked him more and more. 的确她越来越喜欢他了。
She went farther and farther away. 她越走越远了。
2)the more…the more 越…,越…:
The more I work, the more I accomplish. 我干得越多,完成的就越多。
The more I thought, the more extraordinary did it appear. 我越想,这事就越显得离奇。
3)had better 最好:
We’d better not disturb him. 我们最好不要打扰他。
What had we better do? 我们最好怎么办?
I think I’d better be going. 我想我最好还是走。
(Had)better not wait for them. 最好别等他们了。
4)Know better than (to) do something. 懂得不宜做某事:
You ought to know better than to go out without an overcoat on such a cold day?
你应当懂得这样冷的天气不穿大衣出去可不行。
You ought to know better than stay away from school. 你该知道不应当逃学。
He knew better than to mention this to her. 他知道不宜向她提及此事。
5)think better (of) 改变主意,决定不这样做:
He was going to leave school, but later he thought better of it.
他打算退学,但后来改变了主意。
He used to be a radical and has thought better of it.
他以前是个激进分子,后来改变了看法。
He was going to answer me back, but he thought better of it.
他本来想和我顶嘴的,但没有这样做。
6)had best 最好:
I had best fax them our plans. 我最好把我们的计划传真给他们。
I had best have your opinions first. 我最好先听听你的意见。
We had best get home before midnight. 我们最好午夜以前到家。
强化练习题:
1. The horse is getting old and cannot run ____ it did.
A. as faster as B. so fast than C. so faster as D. as fast as
2. The students are ____ young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty.
A. most B. almost C. mostly D. at most
3.This year they have produced _____ grain____ they did last year.
A. as less, as B. as few, as C. less, than D. fewer, than
4. ---- Can I help you?
---- Well, I’m afraid the box is ____ heavy for you, but thank you all the same.
A. so B. much C. very D. too
5. ---- Excuse me, is this Mr Brown’s office?
----I’m sorry, but Mr Brown____ works here. He left about three weeks ago.
A. not now B. no more C. not still D. no longer
6. After the new technique was introduced, the factory produced ____ tractors in 1988 as the year before.
A. as twice many B. as many twice C. twice as many D. twice many as
7. ----Will you give this message to Mr White, please?
----Sorry, I can’t. He ____.
A. doesn’t any more work here B. doesn’t any longer here work
C. doesn’t work any more here D. doesn’t work here any longer
8. How ___ can you finish the drawing?
A. long B. often. C. soon D. rapid
9. She doesn’t speak ____ her friends, but her written work is excellent.
A. as well as B. as often as C. so much as D. as good as