《语法俱乐部》| 第二十二章:倒装句
倒装句是一种把动词(助动词)移动到主语前,起到强调、增强清楚与简洁性功能的句子。
一、比较级倒装
Girls like cats more than boys, who as a rule are a cruel lot, do.
这一句中修辞不佳,句尾的do无法省略,否则句子有歧义,但是这个助动词离它的主语boys又太远了。我们使用倒装:
Girls like cats more than do boys, who as a rule are a cruel lot.
总结:比较级使用倒装
1> 从属从句中的助动词或be动词不宜省略;
2> 主语后面有较长的修饰语。
二、关系从句的倒装
关系词必须先向前移动照成顺序反常的时候才使用倒装
句1:The President is a man.
句2:A heavy responsibility, whether he likes it or not, falls on him.
两句联合:
The President is a man on whom a heavy responsibility whether he likes it or not, falls.
on whom是一个介词短语修饰falls,但是 移动到句首以后同falls的距离相隔太远了,同时falls的主语a heavy responsibility同falls的距离也太远,就需要使用倒装句:
The President is a man on whom falls a heavy responsibility whether he likes it or not.
注意:如果关系词原本就在句首的位置,没有移动,就不能使用倒装。
三、假设语气的倒装
假设语气往往是使用if引导的,如果有be动词和助动词就可以将其移动到主语前面,省略连接词。形成倒装:
If I had been there, I could have done something to help.
为了加强简洁形成倒装:
Had I been there, I could have done something to help.
四、引用句的倒装
直接引用:
The police said, "None was killed in the accident."
将引用的话放于前面,起到强调的作用:
"None was killed in the accident." said the police.
间接引用:
The WHO warns that cholera is coming back.
将最重要的放在前面,形成倒装:
Cholera, warns the WHO, is coming back.
五、地方副词倒装
这种倒装是把地方副词放于句首,起强调作用。
There goes the train!
Here is your ticket for the opera!
这里是把there和here地方副词放于句首的倒装。其他的地方副词也可以:
In Loch Ness dwells a mysterious monster.
六、否定副词开头的倒装
表示否定的副词(not、never、hardly、barely)放于句首强调语气,就得使用倒装
We don't have such luck every day.
如果把not every day放于句首强调不是每一天,就得使用倒装:
Not every day do we have such luck.
另外有一些副词hardly、barely移动到句首也要使用倒装:
I had hardly sat down to work when the phone rang.
将hardly移动到句首起加强语气的作用:
Hardly had I sat down to work when the phone rang.
注意:如果hardly在句首是正常的修饰词,而不是起强调作用的,就不能使用倒装句。
not only……but also配合形成倒装就比较复杂,我们相信说明一下:
He not only passed the exam but also scored at the top.
not only……but also形成句子要求对仗工整,我们先来尝试一下:
Not only did he passed the exam but also scored at the top.
前半句not only引导的从句我们改成了倒装,但是与后面but also的句子不对称,我们修改成:
Not only did he passed the exam but also he scored at the top.(不佳)
我们经常将not only和but also连在一起背诵,但是不知道only和also都是焦点副词,有一种强调的功能。这时候就应该拆开but also,使得also强调后面的scored at the top:
Not only did he passed the exam but he also scored at the top.