实用写作Chapter 1.ppt

(3) Intervening Words 插入成分有along with, as well…as, like, no less than, except, but，in addition to，together with等连词或介词。 Tom and his brother were home for the holidays. Tom, along with his brother, was home for the holidays. (4) Collective Nouns 集合名词是表示一类人或事物的总称。有些集合名词既可表示整体，又可表示其所属成员。 family（家庭；家庭成员） class（班级；学生） committee（委员会；全体委员） audience（听众） public（公众） A million dollars is a great deal of money.(表示总数) Ten years is too long to wait. (表示单位) Forty-eight hours was the regular workweek a decade ago. (表示单位) My family is not far from my college. (整体) My family have many different views about how we are going to Japan during the vacation. (个体) (5) Plural Forms with Singular Meaning dynamics（动力学），optics（光学） economics（经济学）， phonetics（语音学） electronics（电子学），politics（政治学）， semantics（语义学） ，physics（物理学） informatics（信息学）， ethics（伦理学） mathematics（数学），statics （静力学） statistics（统计学），measles（麻疹） virus （病毒），mumps（流行性腮腺炎）， news（新闻） 以-ics结尾的表示学科的名词 Activity Put the correct verb forms in the following sentences. Patience______ (be) a virtue. A summary of the debate between the two residential candidates _______ (be) in today’s newspaper. None of these answers ______(be) correct. Ten minutes _______(be) enough. No one except her own supporters ______ (agree) with her. The worth of men like Galileo _______(be) not always understood by others. 《新世纪实用英语写作》 is is is is agrees is Practice Put the correct verb forms in the blanks. Either my brother or my parents_________ (be) coming. Neither my parents nor my brother__________(be) coming. Something _______(need) to be done about this. Each of the candidates _________(be) giving a short speech. The physics of fiber-optic technology ________(be) pretty complicated. Here _________(be) the address you were looking for. 1.6 Punctuation (1) Colon (2) Semicolon (3) Comma (4) Quotation marks (1) colon Do you know the functions of colon in these sentences? Most students use two dictionaries: a bilingual dictionary and an Englis