一般说来,不定冠词与定冠词位于一个名词或名词短语的最前面。
a European country 一个欧洲国家
the happiest time 幸福的时光
1 冠词a/an 用于as/so...as...句式结构,一般置于as/so修饰的形容词之后。
I have never spent as delightful a time as this Sunday.我从未度过一个像这个星期天那么高兴的时刻。
2 冠词a/an用于such…as…句式结构,一般应置于such之后,形容词之前。
Are you able to squash all your furniture into such a small house?你能把所有家具放进这间小房子吗?
冠词用于such后、形容词前,so修饰的形容词后。
Albert Einstein is such a great scientist that people throughout the world all re-spect him.阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦是一位伟大的科学家,全世界的人都尊敬他。
The teacher asked so hard a question that none of us could answer it.老师问了一个难题,我们都回答不上来。
在too...to...结构中,冠词置于too修饰的形容词之后。
Maggie is too young a girl to be left by herself at home.马吉太小,不能把她单独留在家里。
冠词在有rather,quite修饰的名词或名词短语中,位置比较灵活,主要有以下几种情况:
a rather/quite valuable suggestion
rather/quite a valuable suggestion
rather/quite valuable a suggestion
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quite不修饰形容词,只修饰名词时,冠词只能置于quite后。
We found it quite a change when we moved to Hong Kong.我们搬到香港后,感觉生活变化很大。
另外,在quite/rather a few,quite/rather a little等短语中,由于a few,a lit-tle是固定短语,不可拆开变成a quite/rather few,a quite/rather little。
由what和how构成的感叹句中,冠词置于what后以及how修饰的形容词后。
What a splendid performance you gave us!你们的演出多么精彩呀!
How timely a rain we've got in so dry a season!在这样干燥的季节,这真是一场及时雨呀!
定冠词the应放在all,both, double,three times等词之后,名词之前。
all the books 所有的书
both the parents 父母双方
three times the amount 数量的三倍