非谓语动词,是动词的非谓语形式。动词一般在句子中充当谓语。非谓语动词在句中可起名词,形容词,副词的作用,在句中充当主语,宾语,表语,补语,定语或状语。即动词的非谓语形式除了不能独立作谓语外,可以承担句子的任何成分。
非谓语动词包括不定式,动名词和分词(现在分词和过去分词)三种形式。非谓语动词有以下几种形式上的变化:
主动形式 被动形式
动词不定式 一般式 to do to be done
进行式 to be doing
完成时 to have done to have been done
完成进行式to have been doing
动名词与现在分词 一般式 doing being done
完成时 having done having been done
过去分词 一般式 done
一, 动词不定式
1, 不定式做主语:
(1)往往放在谓语的后面,句子则用引导词it作形式主语。
It is a great pleasure to talk with him.
(2)在不定式的前面加一个由for引起的断语说明不定式表示的动作的执行者。
It is easy for the students to read.
(3)在下列形容词作表语时,不定式前常需加由for引起的短语,说明不定式指的是谁的情况:kind, good, nice, wise, unwise, clever, silly, wrong, right, foolish, stupid, careless, rude, polite, naught.
2,不定式作宾语及复合宾语:
(1)有些及物动词常用动词不定式作宾语,常见动词有:want, demand, like, hate, hope, begin, seem, fail, help, offer, manage, pretend(假装), forget, remember, promise, prepare, learn, expect, agree, determine, prefer, intend.
(2)有些及物动词常用一个连接代词(副词)加上动词不定式作宾语。常见的动词有:tell, teach, advise, show, decide, discuss等等。
The teacher taught me how to pronounce the word again and again.
(3)有些动词需要复合宾语,动词不定式在复合宾语中作宾语补足语。常见动词有:ask, advise, allow, believe, call on(号召,请求), help, know, like, order, tell, persuade, permit, want.
I asked my mother to buy a new bike for me.
(4)有些动词的复合宾语中,动词不定时须省掉to,这样的动词有:see, watch, notice, observe, look at, listen to, hear, have, feel, let, make, help.
e.g. We wanted to have him come early.
They saw the boys play volleyball on the ground after school.
【注意】①help后面的 to可省掉,也可保留。
②在被动语态的句子中不定式省去的to需要还原。
(5)有些动词复合宾语中的不定式,常用it来表示,真正作宾语的不定式则放在宾语补足语的后面,常见的动词有:find, think, make, consider, feel.
Do you consider it right to send our doctors over?
3,不定式作定语:
不定式作定语时,一般放在被修饰的名词或代词之后。
(1) 有些名词的后面常用不定式作定语。这些名词是:campaign(战役),courage, chance, decision, determination, drive, effort, intention(目的,意图), motive force(动力),movement, need, opportunity, right, struggle, time, way, wish.
(2)有些句子常可以看到不定式作定语的用法。这类举行常见的有:I usually have a lot of meetings to attend during the summer vacation.
He has something important to tell me every day.
Sorry, I don’t know you are always the first person to come here.
This is not the pen to write with.
I have not a friend to talk with.
4,不定式作状语的用法:
不定式作状语,用来修饰动词,表示目的,原因,结果,其位置和一般的状语相同。
(1) 表示目的:
We went to the airport to welcome the players last Saturday.
【注意】有时不定式表示目的时使用in order to或 so as to加动词原形,为了表示强调,放在句首或句尾。