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Section Ⅳ Grammar & Writing
动词的时态Ⅱ
阅读下列句子,体会黑体部分的用法
1.This last experience had a profound effect on Timoteo.
2.He was driving a lorry load of bananas when he came off the road at a bend and fell three hundred metres down the mountain.
3.Before he volunteered to direct the traffic,Timoteo had had lots of jobs.
一、一般过去时
1.主要用于过去某个时间发生的动作或存在的状态。
I saw him in the street yesterday.
昨天我在街上看见他了。
2.表示过去一段时间内经常发生的或习惯性的动作。常与often,usually,sometimes等表示频度的词连用。
I often went to school on foot last term.
上学期我经常步行去上学。
3.在以下句型中,常用一般过去时表示虚拟语气。
I would rather they came tomorrow.
我宁愿他们明天来。
【提示】 有些情况发生的时间不是很清楚,但实际上是过去发生的,对方已经知道或上文中已提到,也应当用一般过去时。
二、过去进行时
1.过去进行时主要表示过去某一时刻正在进行的动作,或表示过去某一阶段一直在进行的动作。
I was watching TV at home last night.
昨晚我一直在家看电视。
2.表示按计划、安排过去某时刻将要发生的动作。
He said they were leaving for Beijing this afternoon.
他说他们今天下午要去北京。
3.过去进行时中有always,forever,continually,constantly修饰时,表示说话人的赞赏或厌烦的感情。
He was always thinking of others.
他总是想到别人。
三、过去完成时
1.过去完成时表示在过去某一时间或某一动作以前已经完成的动作。这个过去的时间常用by,before等引出的介词短语或一个时间状语从句表示,也可以暗含在上下文中。
I had finished my homework before supper.
我在晚饭前就把作业做完了。
2.过去完成时还可表示过去某一时刻之前发生的动作或状态持续到过去某个时间或还要持续下去,常与for,since等词连用。
He had served in the army for ten years before he retired last year.
他在部队干了十年,去年退役了。
3.使用过去完成时态的几个典型句型:
(1)主语+had+hardly(scarcely)+过去分词+when (before)+主语+一般过去时/主语+had+no sooner+过去分词+than+主语+一般过去时
He had hardly got into the room when the telephone rang.他刚一进房间,电话铃就响了。
(2)表示过去未曾实现的愿望、打算或意图,用过去完成时。常用动词有:hope,think,expect,intend,mean,suppose,want等。
They had wanted to help but couldn't get here in time.他们本来是要来帮忙的,但未能及时赶到。
(3)It was+时间+since+主语+过去完成时
They asked me to have a drink with them.I said that it was at least ten years since I had enjoyed a good drink.他们请我和他们一起喝酒。我说我至少有十年没有好好喝一次了。
(4)This/It was the first/second/...time+that从句(从句用过去完成时)
It was the first time that I had been to Beijing.
那是我第一次到北京。
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①no sooner或hardly放在句首时,句子用倒装语序;
②hardly...when...,no sooner...than...与as soon as同义。
No sooner had they got home than it began to rain.他刚到家,天就下起