郭善斌
选择好的词汇后,组词成句是十分关键的一步。句子是文章的基础,写好句子十分重要。下面笔者就以学生写的一篇短文为例进行剖析,来谈一谈如何写好句子。
My school life
I still remember the day when I first went to school at the age of seven, happy and excited. I thought everything at school was so wonderful that the school was simply a beautiful garden. My childhood dream had come true.
How time flies! Now I has been at school for ten years. Every morning I get up early. On his way to school, the rising sun greets me with a smile. In class I enjoy reading aloud, answer questions and listening to the teachers. In the evening, a lot of homework is done, feeling like a farmer working hard in his fields, expect to have a good harvest. Our school has a basketball centre, where I often play basketball with my classmates in PE classes.
We had many subjects to learn. So we very busy. During breaks, I often go for a rest in front of the classroom building, I talking with my friends or I looking into the distance. The blue sky, the white clouds, the flying birds, around me all the things make me happy. What a happy life we have at school! Never will I forget my school life.
一、完整性
1.句子成分要齐全
在英语中,主语和谓语是构成句子的必要成分,二者缺一不可。但是在汉语中,有些句子可以没有主语或谓语。因此受母语的影响,中国学生往往会写出没有主语或谓语的英语句子。
在第三段第二个句子“So we very busy.”中,“we” 和 “very”之间缺少谓语“are”。
2. 句意的完整性
一个完整的句子表达单一的完整的意思。它不包含并不紧密相关的意思,也不表达本身不完整的意思。
在第一段第一个句子“I still remember the day when I first went to school at the age of seven, happy and excited.”中,如果去掉定语从句“when I first went to school at the age of seven, happy and excited”,主句“I still remember the day”的意思就不完整了。
二、一致性
一致性指的是句子前后之间要有照应、有衔接;思想的表达应该是有序的、清楚的;句子与句子之间的过渡要符合逻辑,不能造成歧义或矛盾。一致性表现在以下几个方面:
1. 主谓要一致:谓语在人称和数上要与主语保持一致。
在第二段第二个句子“Now I has been at school for nine years”中,谓语“has”与主语 “I”在人称和数上没有保持一致,应改为“have”。
2. 平行结构中的成分要一致
为了使句子前后保持平衡和协调,句中的并列成分应在形式上保持一致。
在第二段第五个句子“In class I enjoy reading aloud, answer questions and listening to the teachers.”中,“enjoy” 后应接动名词,所以“answer questions” 没有与“reading aloud, listening to the teachers”在形式上保持一致,应改为“answering questions”。
3. 代词使用的一致性
代词与其所代替或修飾的名词应在人称、性别和数上保持一致;代词指代要清楚。
在第二段第四个句子“On his way to school, the rising sun greets me with a smile.”中,“his”应改为“my”,因为这篇短文说的是作者“我”的学校生活,并以第一人称写的。……