一个句子可根据意思和语法结构分成若干小段,每一小段称之为一个意群.意群可以是一个词,一个词组或短语,也可以是并列句的一个分句或复合句的一个主句、从句等等,我们可用“/”来划分句子的意群.
意群在句子中具有语义、语法和语调三种特征,例:
After school,/my classmates and I/are going to play basketball./
放学后,我和我的同学们去打篮球.我们可以把这个句子按语义、语法和语调征各分为三个单位,它们是:
现将句子划分意群的一般原则归纳如下:
1.名词词组
1)冠词+名词,例:a country
2)名词+名词,例:coumrade Li
3)指示代词+名词,例:this book
4)形容词+名词,例:natural science
5)作形容词用的名词或分词+名词,例:
New Year’s Day
the working class
6)数词+名词,例:thirty-two note-books7)数词+数词,例:223--two hundred and twenty-three
8)不定代词+名词,例:some ink
2.介词短语,例:
from now on
with an effort
3.副词短语,例:
day and night
first of all
4.副词+介词短语,例:
early in the morning
far into the night
5.副词+动词,或动词+副词,例:
quite understand
study hard
6.一些固定的动词词组,例:
to take a rest
to have a meeting
to get ready
7.联系动词+表语,例:
be at school
grow quite well
8.主语+谓语,这种句型用于简短语句时,一般划分为一个意群,例:
He stands up.
They are very happy.
9.主语+谓语+宾语,这种句型用于简短语句时,划分为一个意群,例:
I can speak English.
He gave me a book.
10.简短的名词性从句,包括主语从句、表语从句和宾语从句,例:
That he will come here/is certain.(主语从句)
This is/how he studies English.(表语从句)
He told me/where I could find my book.(宾语从句)
11.简短的定语从句,例:
This is a factory/that makes cloth.
12.简短的状语从句,状语从句可以放在句首或句末.放在句首时,从句后通常要用逗号;放在句末时,从句一般不用逗号,每个简短的状语从句分为一个意群,例:
I waited/till he come back.
He can’t come/because he is ill.
We worked fast/so that we finish our plan.