内容正文:
Unit 6 Disaster and hope
Ellipsis
B3U6
Can you complete the missing words?
A: I’m hungry.
B: Are you ( hungry )?
A: Yeah. I didn’t have lunch today.
B: ( Do you ) Want some sandwiches?
A: Are there any?
B: Yeah. ( I’ve ) Just made some.
定义
省略是一种避免重复、突出新信息并使上下文紧密连接的语法
手段。与汉语-样,英语中的省略也较为常见。一般来说,只要
不损害结构或引起歧义,能省略的地方就可以省略。
Ellipsis
省略
意义
可使语言更加简洁,意思更加明确,句子结构更加紧凑。
[ɪˈlɪpsɪs]
a It’s just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest lines, as well as one of the deepest.
b My office is only on the third floor of the building, so quite low.
c It’s just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest lines, as well as one of the deepest lines.
d My office is only on the third floor of the building, so it is quite low.
Look at the sentences from the reading passage and answer the questions.
1 What has been left out in these sentences?
“Lines” in sentence(a), and “it is”in sentence(b).
一、简单句的省略
1. 省略主语
祈使句中主语通常省略; 其它省略主语多限于少数现成的说法。
Hand me the hammer, will you ?
Thank you for your help.
Sounds great.
Looks like rain.
(You)
(I)
(It)
(It)
一、简单句的省略
2. 省略主谓或主谓语的一部分
祈使句中主语通常省略; 其它省略主语多限于少数现成的说法。
Anything you you want to tell me ?
Anything wrong?
What/How about a cup of tea?
Why not say hello to him?
(Is there)
(Is there)
(do you)
(do you think)
一、简单句的省略
3. 省略作宾语的不定式短语
省略作宾语的不定式短语,只保留to, 但如果该宾语是动词
be或完成时态,则须在之后加上be或have:
(1) –Are you going there?
–Yes, I’d like to.
(go there)
(a doctor)
(finished his homework)
(2) –Are you a doctor?
–No, but I want to be.
(3) –He hasn’t finished his homework.
–He ought to have .
二、并列句的省略
在and、but、so、or连接的并列结构中,
第二个部分相同的结构在不造成意义混淆时可以省去
She is sitting in the chair and talking to her son.
I will ask them to come over and talk the matter over.
She often keeps her dog from running in the field and sleeping in the living room.
∧
to
∧
from
∧
is
三、复合句的省略
1. 定语从句