2023年山东成人高考学位英语词汇语法：形容词

　　一般上说，形容词的位置是紧贴在被修饰的名词前面;不然的话，就跟在接系动词(linking verb)后面充当补足语(complement)。例如：

　　① Sam is an industrious professional designer.

　　② What is it that bulky box? May I know?

　　③ Homeless cats are seen wandering about the field.

　　④ David looks cheerful everyday.

　　⑤ Janet is being nasty today.

　　⑥ The sky suddenly turned dark.

　　①-③里的形容词修饰它们后头的名词;④-⑥里的形容词是补足语。

　　下面要讨论的不是形容词的正常位置，而是在各种特殊情况下所处的特殊位置。这些特殊情况，主要有下列七种：

　　㈠形容词被其他词语修饰时，便要跟在所修饰的名词后面，如：

　　⑦ This hole←large←enough for a dog to pass through must be blocked up.

　　⑧ Don't throw away that filing cabinet←big←enough to keep all the old documents.

　　㈡两个意思相反的形容词并用时，也是要跟在被修饰的名词后面，如：

　　⑨ We should be fair to all people, big and small, young and old.

　　㈢形容词修饰“anything, something, nothing, everything” 等代名词时，也要在后头出现，如：

　　⑩ There is nothing funny about it.

　　11. Something important has been found.

　　㈣在某些固定的词语中，形容词在名词后头出现，如：

　　12. Military offenders will be sued in the court-martial. (军事法庭)

　　13. The sum total (总数) of his teaching experience is two years as a relief teacher in a secondary school.

　　14. Since time immemorial (太古时代), human beings have fought for survival.

　　㈤在某些口语中，形容词也跟在被修饰的名词之后，如：

　　15. On Sunday last (上星期日);16. On Monday next (下星期一);17. Volume one (卷);18. Chaper two (第二章); 19. Page three (第三页)。

　　㈥有时，为了加强句子语气，形容词可以放在句首，如：

　　20. Brave he may be, but he is not a good soldier.

　　21. Old though Jane is, she is healthy and energetic.

　　㈦另一种强调方法，是把意义相吸的几个形容词贯串起来，放在名词之后，如：

　　22. Once upon a time, there lived a grey-haired king, hale and hearty.

　　23. The editor was a scientiest, original, sagacious and inventive.