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it用法
it作为人称代词的用法
1. it作为人称代词时,可指代除人以外的动植物和物品,意为“它”,有时也可指代婴儿或性别不明确的某人。
· I keep a dog. It’s very clever.
· Bob left his English book at home. He called his mother to send it to school.
· The baby is sleeping. It must be quite tired.
· Someone is knocking the door. Who is it?
2. it可指代this或that
· ---What’s this in English?
---It’s an orange.
· That’s your bike, isn’t it?
it作为非人称代词的用法
it作为非人称代词可指时间、天气、距离以及上文出现过的内容。it还可以作不定式、分词、动名词的形式主语和形式宾语。
1. 指时间
· ---What time is it now?
---It’s 10:30.
· ---What’s the date today?
---It’s June 1st.
2. 指天气
· It’s very hot today.
· It was sunny yesterday.
· We decide to go to the zoo if it doesn’t rain on the weekend.
3. 指距离
· ---How far is it from your home to school?
---It’s about ten minutes’ walk.
· It’s less than five kilometers from the bank to the post office.
4. 指上文出现过的内容
· ---When is your birthday?
---It’s on August 10th.
· Everyone enjoys Miss Wang’s class because it’s really interesting.
· Sarah didn’t come back home at 11 in the evening. It worried her mother.
5. 作形式主语(代替不定式短语、动名词短语)
· It’s not your fault to miss the flight.
· It’s very kind of you to help with my math.
· It’s necessary for us to do some exercise every day.
· It took me ten hours to arrive in Beijing.
· It’s no use buying a book but not reading it.
6. 作形式宾语(代替不定式短语、动名词短语)
· We find it impossible to get there in three days.
· They consider it good for children to drink milk in the morning.
· Some parents think it necessary to develop their children’s learning ability.
· I believe it important grasping a foreign language.
强调句
1. 结构:It is/was +被强调部分+ that/who...,该结构用于强调主语、宾语、状语等,但不能强调谓语动词。
· I bought this book yesterday morning.
It was yesterday morning that I bought this book.
It was this book that I bought yesterday.
It was I who/that bought this book yesterday morning.
(注意:当强调部分指人时,用who或that都可以;除此之外都用that)
2. 强调句和定语从句的区别
(1) 强调句去除“it is/ was... that”仍是完整的句子,定语从句则不是。
· It was a summer when we met.(定语从句)
It was in a summer that we met.