常见的英语写作错误(英文写作常见错误)
导语:英语学霸养成记之14个常见英语写作错误解析
在英语学习中,我们经常会对复杂的英语语法感到头痛不已,很多语法规则看似简单但却很容易用错。英语语法不只对我们学习英语的外国人来说感到困难,即使是英语国家的大部分人包括受过教育的英美人,有时也会感到有点糊涂和混乱。瀚森教育英语名师根据多年英语学习和教学经验,总结了英语写作中常犯的14个语法错误,只要我们能够熟知这些错误并在以后的英语写作中避免它,那么我们的英语学习就能有个很好的开始。
第一、所有格符号(’)使用错误
一旦我们掌握了所有格符号(’)的使用方法,我们就能够正确使用它,但是我们在英语写作过程中却经常误用。所有格符号使用规则如下:
(1) 表示所有格 —— 某样东西属于某人或某物。
(2) 表示某物属于某人时,所有格符号加在“S”前面。如:“The girl’s horse.”
(3) 表示某物属于某两个或更多人时,所有格符号要加在“S”的后面。如:“The girls’ horse.”
(4) 表示缩合词。如把“do not”缩合成“don’t”。
(5) 所有格不能用于表示单词的复数形式,即使是表示日期的数字。如:
The horse’s are in the field —— The horses are in the field
Pen’s for sale —— Pens for sale
In the 1980’s —— In the 1980s
Janes horse is over there —— Jane’s horse is over there
The girls dresses are ready for them to collect —— Jane’s horse is over there
第二、Your和you’re
使用规则:Your表示所有关系——某物属于你;“You’re”是“you are”的缩略形式。如:
Your beautiful ——You’re beautiful
Do you know when your coming over? —— You’re beautiful
Can I have one of you’re biscuits? —— Can I have one of your biscuits?
第三、Its 和 it’s
Its和It’s经常会被英语学习者混用,二者有很大的不同,具体规则如下:
(1) “It’s” 是 “it is”的缩合词。
(2) “Its”表示某物归属于某物。如
Its snowing outside ——The sofa looks great with its new cover
The sofa looks great with it’s new cover ——The sofa looks great with its new cover
第四、Could / would / should of
“Could/would/should of ” 的使用错误是因为“could have”的缩合形式为“could’ve”,发音时很像“could of”。如:
We could of gone there today —— We could’ve gone there today
I would of done it sooner —— I would have done it sooner
You should of said ——You should’ve said
第五、There/their/they’re
(1) “There” 表示不在“here”的一个地方如 “over there”.
(2) “There be” 表示是什么或有什么,如 “There are no cakes left.”
(3) “Their” 表示所有关系,什么东西属于他们。
(4) “They’re” 是 “they are”的缩合形式。例如:
Their going to be here soon ——They’re going to be here soon
We should contact they’re agent ——We should contact their agent
Can we use there boat? ——We should contact their agent
Their is an argument that says ——There is an argument that says
第六、Fewer和less
我们很多人并不知道“fewer”和“less”的区别。通常情况下当我们应该使用“fewer”的时候我们更倾向于使用“less”。两者的具体语法规则如下:
(1) “Fewer” 用于可数名词。
(2)“Less” 用于不可数名词。例如:
There are less cakes now——There are fewer cakes now.
Ten items or less—— Ten items or fewer.
Less sand
Fewer grains of sand
第七、Amount和number
语法规则如下:
(1) “Amount” 用于修饰不可数名词,如水(water)。
(2) “Number” 用于修饰可数名词,如鸟 (birds)。
A greater amount of people are eating more healthily ——A greater number of people are eating more healthily
The rain dumped a larger amount of water on the country than is average for the month.
第八、To / two / too
(1) “To” 用于动词不定式,如 “to talk”。
(2) “To” 作为介词表示 “towards”。
(3) “Too” 表示也 “also” or “as well”。
(4) “Two” 指数字2。
I’m to hot —— I’m too hot
It’s time two go —— It’s time to go
I’m going too town —— I’m going to town
He bought to cakes —— He bought two cakes
第九、Then和than
语法规则如下:
(1) “Than” 用于形容词和副词的比较级。
(2) “Then” 用于表示某事后面紧跟着某事如使用步骤或事项前后顺序等。如 “we’ll go there then there”).
She was better at it then him —— She was better at it than him.
It was more then enough —— It was more than enough.
We’ll go to the baker first, then the coffee shop.
第十、Me / myself / I
当使用人称代词和自反代词时,我们会经常混淆“me”, “myself”和“I”的用法。那么我们该如何正确使用呢?
语法规则如下:
(1) 当我们谈到自己或者其它人时,可以将人名放在句子开头。
(2) 当选择使用 “me” 或 “I” 时,将人名去掉后那个更通顺使用哪个。 例如 “John and I are off to the circus”, 我们不能说成 “me is off to the circus” ,而应该使用 “I am off to the circus”. 因此,当表示和某人一起时使用 “John and I”。
(3) 只有在 “I” 作主语时使用 “myself”。
Me and John are off to the circus—— John and I are off the circus.
Myself and John are going into town——John and I are going into town.
Give it to John and I to look after—— Give it to John and me to look after.
I’ll deal with it myself
I thought to myself
第十一、Invite/invitation
语法规则如下:
(1) “Invite” 是动词 “to invite”,表示邀请某人做某事或去某地。
(2) “Invitation” 是名词 “an invitation”,表示邀请某人做某事或去某地的具体信息。例如:
I haven’t responded to her invite yet. —— I haven’t responded to her invitation yet.
She sent me an invite——She sent me an invitation.
I’m going to invite her to join us.
第十二、Who/whom
(1) “Who” 做句子的主语, “whom” 做句子的宾语。
(2) “Who” 和 “whom” 的用法与 “he” or “him” 的用法一样。我们可以通过问我们自己这样的问题来确定是用“who” 还是 “whom”。
(3) “Who did this? He did” 因此使用 “who” 是正确的。“Whom should I invite? Invite him” – 因此 “whom” 是正确的。
(4) 当应该使用 “who” or “whom” 时,我们会经常错误的使用 “that”。指人时不能使用 “that”。例如:
Who shall I invite? —— Whom shall I invite?
Whom is responsible? —— Who is responsible?
He was the only person that wanted to come —— He was the only person who wanted to come
第十三、Affect/effect
“Affect”和“Effect”的发音和词形都非常相似,因此很容易弄混。只要记住以下规则就很容易区分两者之间的用法和区别了。
(1) “Affect” 是动词 “to affect” 表示影响某事或某人或对某人某事产生影响.
(2)“Effect” 是名词 “a positive effect”表示被影响的结果或产生的作用.
(3)“Effect” 也可以作为动词 “to effect”, 表示产生,如 “to effect a change”,但这个用法不经常使用。例如:
He waited for the medicine to have an affect ——He waited for the medicine to have an effect
They were directly effected by the flooding ——They were directly affected by the flooding
第十四、I.e. and e.g.
这是两个我们非常容易混淆的缩写形式,我们误以为两者可以互换使用,实际上它们的使用方法并不相同。
具体规则如下:
(1) I.e. 表示 “that is” or “in other words”,来源于拉丁语“id est”.
(2) E.g. 表示 “for example”,来源于拉丁语 “exempli gratia”.
(3) “i.e.” and “e.g.”只用于非正式文体中,在正式的文件中,我们最好使用 “that is” 或 “for example”.
例如:
He liked many different cheeses, i.e. cheddar, camembert and brie. —— He liked many different cheeses, e.g. cheddar, camembert and brie.
He objects to the changes – e.g. he won’t be accepting them. ——He objects to the changes – i.e. he won’t be accepting them.
以上是我们在英语写作中非常容易犯的14个错误,希望能够对我们的英语学习起到指导作用,在英语写作中避免使用这些错误的表达方式。
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