专题十 特殊句式
一、倒装句
1.全部倒装
(1)在There be/seem/appear/live/stand/lie/fly/exist/remain等存在句中。
Look,there’s that bookshop I was telling you about.
(2)表示时间、地点和动作转移的副词如here,there,now,then,up,down,in,away,out等置于句首时,为使生动地描述情景而采用倒装语序。此时,句子多用一般现在时或一般过去时。
There goes the phone.I’ll answer it.
(3)such作表语置于句首时。
Such was Albert Einstein,a simple man but the 20th century’s greatest scientist.
(4)直接引语的全部或部分位于句首时。
“If you die,who will get your money?” asked Holmes.
(5)表示地点的介词短语位于句首时。
In the center of the square stands a monument.
(6)为平衡句子结构,或使上下文衔接紧密,而将作表语的介词短语、形容词、副词或分词提到句首,引起倒装。
Gone forever are the days when the Chinese people had to use foreign oil.
2.部分倒装
在下列几种情况下,只把助动词、系动词或情态动词放在主语之前,构成部分倒装。
(1)little,never,not,seldom,neither,nor,hardly,rarely,by no means,at no time,under no circumstances,in no case等表示否定意义的单词或短语位于句首时。