一、句子开头多样化
英语(论坛)是一种句型结构灵活多变的语言。由于拘泥于传统语法框架,许多初学写作的人都喜欢用名词开头写句子。这
样写倒是无可非议,但若通篇文章都是干巴巴的同样结构的句子,就显得呆板生硬,缺乏生气了。事实上,在英语写作中
除名词可放在句子的开头外,许多其它词类及词组均可放在句子开头的位置。
例句:Women leave their homes to take a fuller part in society as time passes.
上面这句话至少还有两种开头方式:
1. As time passes, women leave their homes to take a fuller part in society.
2. To take a fuller part in society, women leave their homes as time passes.
二、避免一个“I”写到底
初学英文写作的人的另一通病是一个“I”写到底,句首僵硬,缺乏变化。
试读下面这段文章:
One thing in particular I remember made me feel grateful toward my mother was that one day I went and asked
her for my own garden, and she let me have my own little plot. I love it and take care of it well. I loved especially
to grow peas. I was proud when we had them on our table. I would pull out the grass in my garden by hand when
the first little blades came up. I would patrol the rows on my hands and knees for any worms and bugs, and I would
kill and bury them.
上面这一段共用了八个“I”。当然上文若出自一个幼童笔下,倒不乏天真纯朴的趣味。不妨改写如下: