中学生英语写作常见错误分析(3)
Error: * There were many kinds of animals such as cows, dogs, chickens, pigs…… on the farm.
Comment: English "ellipsis" for the three points, the Chinese "ellipsis" is six.
Error: * We have a new classmate this term, his name is Jack, he comes from America、
Comment: This is affected by the presence of the most widely used Chinese "comma errors". Sentence structure is usually complete with "full stop" at the end.
Error: * He said I will go with Mike.
Comment: He said: "I will go with Mike."
2.6 Pronouns’ Different Meanings
Let's compare the following two sentences:
1. Everyone has their homework.
2. Everyone has his (or her) homework.
We can see that the second expression is very accurate and reasonable. We don’t know “everyone” stands for male or female. And we know that it is singular because it refers to “everyone”. Considering the series of factors, we must pay attention in writing sentences to keep the same sex, number and case. Therefore, we should notice every sentence element in English writing.
2.7 Double Negative
Let's compare the following two sentences:
1. Barely no one noticed that the pop star lip-synched during the whole performance.
2. Barely anyone noticed that the pop star lip-synched during the whole performance.
Above two sentences tell us misuse of double negative. We must be clear: double negation means yes. We have to understand a sentence’s meaning in order to use double negation exactly.
2.8 Modifier and Parenthesis
Let's compare the following two sentences:
1. The forest fire, no longer held in check by the exhausted firefighters, jumped the firebreak.
2. No longer held in check by the exhausted firefighters, the forest fire jumped the firebreak.
We must stress that we conceive sentences before writing to make the outline of sentence presents in our mind and understand the logical relations of sentence. Then we can add modifier and parenthesis to make the article excellent.
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