1. 我有重要的事情要告诉你。
误: I have important something to tell you.
正: I have something important to tell you.
析:当复合不定代词,如 something ,anything ,everything ,nothing 等被形容词修饰时,形容词要放在其后。
2. 她和你父亲一样是位好老师。
误: She is as a good teacher as your father.
正: She is as good a teacher as your father.
析: 在 as …… as 结构中,若形容词作定语修饰单数可数名词,不定冠词 a ( an )应置于形容词和名词之间,不可放在形容词之前。
3. 那里的人喜欢喝茶。
误: There people like drinking tea.
正: People there like drinking tea.
析: 表示方位的副词,如 here ,there ,upstairs ,downstairs ,below ,home 等也可作定语,但通常放在所修饰的词之后。
4. 你认为我们首先应当做什么?
误: What do you think should we do first ?
正: What do you think we should do first ?
析: 英语中如果特殊疑问句中插入以一般疑问句式出现的插入语,如 do you think 等,则特殊疑问句本身的主语、谓语一般仍按陈述语序,而不再使用疑问语序。
5. 昨天他从马上跌了下来。
误: He fell the horse off yesterday.
正: He fell off the horse yesterday.
析: fall off 中的 off 是介词,并非副词,所以应放在宾语之前。
6. 王涛有时上学迟到。
误: Wang Tao sometimes is late for school.
正: Wang Tao is sometimes late for school.
析: 频度副词 sometimes ,often ,usually ,always 等通常位于实义动词之前,be 动词之后。