什么是不定冠词

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什么是不定冠词

不定冠词的类别用法

1.除表示某一类人或事物外，用在作补足语和同位语的名词之前，泛指某人的职业、阶级等。例如：

Mr Zhang is considered(to be)an excellent English teacher.

Wang Ling,amaths teacher,is to give us a lecture tomorrow.

但如果这一职位在一个时期内只由一个担任或表示称号、头衔时，则不用冠词。例如：

In 1860,Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.

2.在名词带有一个描绘性定语时用不定冠词。例如：

I’m going to borrow’a French novel to read.(描绘性不定式)

A certain boy saw a big dog run out of the gate last Sunday.(描绘性形容词。常在讲故事时用， 表明讲故事的人心中的具体人，但尚未告诉人们是谁)

不定冠词的指量用法

1. 不定冠词除表示“一个”(I’ll be back in a day or two.)及“每一”(Take the medicine th ree times a day)的意义之外，在“of+a+名词”的结构中，表示“同一”、“相同”之意。例如：

Comrade Li and I are nearly of an age.老李跟我年龄大致相同。

My elder brother’s shoes and mine are of a size.我哥哥的鞋跟我的一样大小(一个号)。

2.a与One同源。但强调数目概念时用“One”，并要重读。例如：

There’s only'one way to go.

No'one boy can carry it.

试比较：

I have a picture book.(并非强调一本)

I have'One picture book.(只有一本，没有两本、三本)。

特殊含义

1.用在一些表示动作的名词(reat,walk,look,try,sleep,breath…)之前表示“一次”、“一下”、“ 一会儿”等。例如：

Let’s have a rest.

He made a second try.

After looking round,he decided to have a look upstairs.

2.表示“一种”、“一类”。例如：

“You don’t understand,”said Joe,a cruel light shining in hiseyes.“你不懂，”乔说，眼睛里 闪着(一种)凶狠的光。

As a child,he had to make a living.

3.表示风、雨等的“一阵”。例如：

An hour later,he was woken up by a violent knocking on his door.

That’s why we are most likely to see worms after a heavy rain.

4.表示“某种程度”。例如：

China has a population of over one billion.

A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold.

He seemed to be in a fever.

5.表示饮料的“一份”、“一种”。例如：

Mao-tai is a famous Chinese wine.

I want a black coffee.

不定冠词的其他用法

1.常用在quite,few,rather,many,half,such,what等词之后。例如：

He is rather a fool.

What a wonderful film you have seen.

He has been to Lanzhow many a time.(=many times)

又如：half an hour,quite a big…

2.常用在so(as,too,how)+形容词之后。例如：

She is as clever a girl as you wish to meet.

It’s too difficult a lesson for us to understand.

We have not had so cold a day as this for many weeks.

How fine a day it is!