副词作状语
英语状语经常由副词充当。有许多副词以ly结尾,阅读时有助于鉴别状语成分,但也有不少副词不以ly结尾。下面说说副词作状语时的用法。
1) 大部分副词可以作状语修饰动词
a) 副词修饰动词时可以位于动词之前,也可以位于动词之后,如:
He kindly shook hands with me as usual. 他照例客气地和我握手。
The new machine is running smoothly. 新的机器运行良好。
We should never neglect our users when developing software. 制作软件的时候,我们决不能忽视我们的用户。
She dances well. 她跳舞跳得很好。
b) 如果动词之后有宾语,那么副词要位于宾语之后,如:
He quit the room angrily. 他愤然离开房间。
I remember seeing her somewhere. 我记得在某个地方见过她。
c) 修饰be动词的副词要位于be动词之后,如:
There is hardly any good news in today's papers. 今天的报纸上几乎没有什么好消息。
These factors are obviously rather vague and difficult to apply. 显然,这些因素很模糊,运用起来很困难。
The price of our product is already too high. 我们产品的价格已经太高了。
2) 一些表示程度的副词可以作状语修饰形容词或副词。
They now had an extremely difficult situation to deal with. 他们现在需要处理一个极其困难的局面。
The terms are entirely unreasonable. 条款完全不合理。
Her salary is pretty high, but she never get bonus. 她的薪酬挺高,但就是从未拿过奖金。
副词作状语修饰形容词或副词时,一般位于所修饰的词前边,但单词enough例外,应位于所修饰的词之后。
Our living standard is still not high enough. 我们的生活水平仍不够高。
The police ran fast enough to catch the robber within two minutes. 警察跑得够快,两分钟内就擒住了抢劫者。
3) 一些副词可以修饰整条句子,这类副词又称为句子副词,用于表示对句子内容的看法、态度、评价等
Ideally, we would like to start our project next month. 理想而言,我们希望下个月就起动我们的项目。
Frankly, they are quite stupid. 坦率地讲,他们很愚蠢。
4) 还有一些副词起连接作用,使上下句的关系更加紧密,而且可以使行文更加流畅。
The price was too high. Moreover, the house isn’t in a good position. 价格太高,而且房子的位置不好。
We have recorded a 10% drop in sales last year. Accordingly, we were forced to cut our expenditure. 去年我们的销量下降了10%。因此,我们被迫减少开支。
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