二、常見名詞考點透析
一、單、復(fù)數(shù)名詞的正確使用
[例] They have all sorts of course. (2006陜西高考·改錯 )
[析] 英語中,名詞有單數(shù)、復(fù)數(shù)或不可數(shù)的形式。本題中的course是可數(shù)名詞,意指“課程”,故應(yīng)用復(fù)數(shù)形式courses。
二、僅以復(fù)數(shù)形式出現(xiàn)的名詞
[例] Happy birthday, Peter, and many happy return of the day! (2000安徽春考·改錯)
[析] Many happy returns of the day! 是一句固定的生日祝語,相當(dāng)于漢語的“祝你年年有今日,歲歲有今朝!”returns 在此處便是約定俗成的用法。
除這一結(jié)構(gòu)外,像shake hands with (= shake sb’s hand), make friends with和change seats / trains / buses等常用的結(jié)構(gòu),及thanks, cheers, congratulations, things(情況), affairs, feelings, as follows(如下), in tears, in ruins, in pieces, in chains(被囚禁), in high spirits, in one’s teens / twenties, in the 1990’s (或in the 1990s), into halves, good manners, give one’s regards / best wishes to, make contributions to, make preparations for等,也都是常用或只用復(fù)數(shù)的名詞式。