抽象、物质、专有名,代词基数用作限定;
泛指节假季节星期几,球棋、呼语与餐名;
刊物、公告与标题,普通名词并列紧相邻;
唯一职位,学科与语种,洲、国、省、市、县街路名。
上述口诀用心牢记,并结合下列说明予以理解。
①抽象、物质名词和专有名词一般无冠词,但物质名词、抽象名词具体化,或专有名词泛指时,常用不定冠词,例:
a Mr Wang/a climb/a swim.
for a while/in a hurry/a fire Here is a life of struggle.
Physics is a science. There was a heavy rain last night.等抽象名词受of短语修饰或上下文已予限定,用the.
如:the science of speech sounds 语音学
the music of the film, do me the favor to do sth.
②代数词、基数词作前置定词,不用冠词。
③泛指的节假日、季节、星期前不用冠词。但是季节名词表特定时间或受of知识修饰时用the。如:in the winter of 1948。
有时泛指时间用a adj 名词。如:have a hot summer.
④餐名前一般无冠词。但餐名受adj修饰时常常有a(an)。特指时用the。
如:have a good supper. The breakfast was well cooked.
dinner表“宴会”时,是可数名词,有各种冠词修饰give a dinner to them.
⑤普通名词并列时不用冠词。
soul and heart/husband and wife/day after day/arm in arm/hand in hand.
⑥语种前不用冠词。但the English结构用the。
What's the English for labour.
The English of shakespear.
作限定时用the.