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部分高中常见动词的错误用法_高中英语

       英语动词是所有词类中最易犯错的一种,许多运用上的毛病都和动词有关。有时,连常用的动词都会有用法上的错误。例如有些动词意思相近,其实不尽然。至少,在用法上,会有所差别,如“rise”和“raise”,“stay”和“remain”便是。有些动词,单独用时是一个意思和用法,加上介词时,是另一个意思和用法,如“see”和“see to”,“search”和“search for”便是。

  下面就来详细谈谈。先看这两个句子:

  ①sam raises very early every morning.

  ②the monitor rises his hand to ask a question.

  大家知道,raise是个及物动词,意思是“举起”,要有宾语;rise是个不及物动词,意思是“起身”,不可有宾语。这里的①和②都错;raises和rises必须对换才对。

  ③he remained in the holiday inn.

  ④the flowers stayed on the branches.

  的remain是“留下来”;stay是“暂住”。显然的,③和④是不合逻辑的,remained和stayed必须互换。

  ⑤a crook robbed her money.

  ⑥a few masked men stole a small bank last night.

  虽然robbed和stole都是及物动词,有自己的宾语,但是它们在这里的用法不当。steal要跟着被偷的东西,如钱财、珠宝等;rob的宾语是“人”或“处所”。因此,⑤和⑥的robbed和stole要掉转一下。

  类似的例子还有下面这些:

  ⑦a. mend b. repair

  这两个动词都是“修理”;不同的是:简单的工作,用mend;复杂的或需要特别仪器的事项,则用repair,如:

  ⑦a. you can mend the broken part of the page with glue.

  ⑦b. it took some time to repair the road.

  ⑧a. burned b. burnt

  这两个动词是burn的过去式和过去分词;在句子中的岗位不同,通常有宾语时用“burnt”,没宾语时用“burned”,如:

  ⑧a. the love of freedom burned in our hearts./ the candle has burned brightly for the whole night.

  ⑧b. who has burnt the paper?/ jane burnt all the letters from her former boyfriend.

  至于“动词”和“助动+介词”的误用,我们可以看下面两组例子:

  ⑨the police searched the suspects in the shopping centre, but nobody was arrested.

  ⑩i searched for my pocket and found some coins.

  从语感就知道,⑨和⑩里的searched和searched for是倒置了。⑨要的是“寻找”(searched for);⑩要的是“检查”(searched),两者对换才是。

  ⑾the boy says when he grows, he will be a teacher.

  ⑿their business grows up rapidly.

  的grow是“发展”;grow up是“长大”。显然的,(11)和(12)的两个动词又误用了,要对调一下。

  上面各例证明,动词真是不简单。看似没什么问题的,也出现了问题,更何况是复杂特殊的用法呢?