a 与 an 的用法区别
1.基本区别:原则上说,a用于辅音前;an用于元音前。辅音前用a的例子如: a book, a student, a school, a house, a magazine 等;元音前用an的例子如: an egg, an apple, an object, an idea, an ugly thing 等。
2.易错说明:hour, honest, honor 等单词的拼写虽然以辅音字母h开头,但其读音却以元音开头,因此,前面要用an。反过来,有些单词虽然以元音字母开头,但其读音却以辅音开头,那么它们的前面应用a而不是an,这些词常见的有useful, university, usual, European, united, one-eyed, one-way 等。
此外,对于数字、字母以及由单词首字母构成的缩略词,其前到底是用a还是an,也需根据读音来确定,如下:
He has an 11-year-old daughter.
Our daughter sent us an SOS for some more money.
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冠词在句中的位置
1. 通常位置:一般说来冠词放在单数可数名词之前(如 a man / the man),如果名词有其他定语,不定冠词应放在定语之前(如a good man / the good man)。
2. 特殊位置:在下面情况中,冠词的位置比较特殊,需要注意。
① 单数可数名词被 such, many, half, what 等修饰时,不定冠词应置于其后,这个大家看例子就很容易明白,而且平时基本不会出错。
He arrived half an hour ago.
He couldn’t afford to pay such a price.
② 单数可数名词前作定语的形容词被 as, so, how, too 修饰时,通常采用 “as / so / how / too + 形容词 + a / an + 名词”这样的词序。
He didn’t know how great a mistake he had made.
It is too difficult a job for me to finish in so short a time.
③ 当定冠词与 all, both, half 表倍数的 double, twice, three times 等分数词等一起修饰名词时,定冠词应放在它们之后。
Turn off all the lights before you go to bed.
Everything was almost double the normal price.
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1. Instead,she is earning £6,500 aday as __ model in New York.
2. For Pahlsson, its return was __wonder.
3. Giveyour body and brain a rest by stepping outside for __ while, exercising, or doing something you enjoy.
4. Thenursery team switches him every few days with his sister so that while one is being bottle¬fed, __other is with mum — she never suspects.
5. The adobe dwellings (土坯房)built by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest are admired by even__most modern of architects and engineers.
6. He owned___farm, which looked almost abandoned.
7. She apologized for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on___ top floor.
8. Now,years later, this river is one of____ most outstanding examples of environmental clean up.
1.解析:a 此处意为“作为纽约的一名模特”,在单数可数名词model前应该使用不定冠词a,表示“一,一名”。
2.解析:awonder表示“奇迹,奇事”时为可数名词,此处为泛指,故要用不定冠词a。
3.解析:afor a while为固定搭配,意为“一会儿”。
4.解析:the 此处表示双胞胎大熊猫中的另一只,两者之间的“另一个”应该使用the other。
5.解析:the 在形容词最高级的前面用定冠词the。
6.解析:a 此处指一个农场,表示泛指,故用不定冠词a。
7.解析:theon the top floor为固定搭配,意为“在顶层”。
8.解析:the 此空后面的“most outstanding”是最高级的形式,故应填定冠词the。