动词-ing形式
动词-ing形式可在句中作主语、表语、宾语、宾语补足语和状语。
- practice, consider, enjoy, finish, mind, avoid, suggest, look forward to, feel like, give up等动词(短语)后接动词-ing形式作宾语。
- hear, notice, see, watch等感官动词后也可接动词-ing形式作宾语补足语。
- remember, forget, stop等动词后既可接动词不定式,也可接动词-ing形式,run的ing形式 但表达的意义不同。
- 当need, require, want作“需要”讲时,其后的动词-ing形式表示被动意义,也可以用动词不定式的被动形式来替换。
- 动词-ing形式在句中可作状语修饰谓语动词或整个句子,表示动作发生的时间、原因、条件、让步或伴随等情况。
- 一般情况下,现在分词作状语时,逻辑主语就是句子的主语;当逻辑主语与句子的主语不一致时,现在分词前面应加上逻辑主语,此时构成独立主格结构。
经典习题
1.— I’m not good at spoken English. What should I do?
— Why don’t you join an English club to practice ______ English?
A. speak
B. to speak
C. speaking
D. to speaking
2. Miss Brown thinks students should spend as much time as they can ______ in their spare time.
A. read
B. to read
C. reading
D. to doreading
3. Jenny is looking forward to ______ her pen friend in Austria.
A. be heard from
B. be hearing from
C. hear from
D. hearing from
4. At 8:45 in the morning, I saw Eric ______ in the playground by himself.
A. running
B. to run
C. runs
D. to be running
5. The children often lie on the grass, ______ the stars in the sky.
A. watches
B. watching
C. watched
D. watch
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