City University of Hong Kong CLASS CLASS
Making Sense of Grammar
0 like 0 dislike
727 views
asked Oct 29, 2020 in Questions about English Grammar by Ariel (34,480 points) | 727 views

1 Answer

0 like 0 dislike
Best answer

主要子句的主词是全句的“核心人物”,与主要动词搭配合作,也和句中的分词、不定词相关。特别是在分词构句出现时,主要主词也是分词的主词:

Volunteering at an animal shelter, Becky learned to protect animal rights.

→volunteering的主词是谁?

Being nurtured and protected, stray animals in the shelter learn to socialize with humans. →谁被nurtured and protected?

分词由动词而来,必然有相关的主词,分词的主词就是全句的“主角”,与主要主词连结。千万不要把“主要主词”和“分词主词”的关系搞错了而出现以下的错误:

Compared to human rights, we have paid little attention to animal rights. (×)

→谁被compared?不会是我们吧!

上句的说法,把we当成了比较的对象,但真正该与human rights 比较的是animal rights。使用分词compared时,要特别留意:比较的对象是谁?要让正确的主词“就位”,才能避免错误:

Compared to human rights, animal rights have been largely neglected.

主要主词的“主角”地位不容轻忽,千万要记得:主要主词就等于分词的头!

主要主词=分词主词

——劉美君. (2012). 英文文法有道理! 重新認識英文文法觀念. 聯經.

answered Oct 29, 2020 by Ariel (34,480 points)
selected Oct 30, 2020 by Ariel

1,613 questions

1,882 answers

207 comments

15,645 users

1,613 questions
1,882 answers
207 comments
15,645 users