五. 词性误用(Misuse of Parts of Speech)。“词性误用”常表现为:介词当动词用;形容词当副词用;名词当动词用等.
例如: None can negative the importance of money.
析:negative 系形容词,误作动词。
改为:None can deny the importance of money.
六. 指代不清(Ambiguous Reference of Pronouns)。是代词与被指代的人或物关系不清,或者先后所用的代词不一致。试看下面这一句:
例如:Mary was friendly to my sister because she wanted her to be her bridesmaid.
(玛丽和我姐姐很要好,因为她要她做她的伴娘。)
析:读完上面这一句话,读者无法明确地判断两位姑娘中谁将结婚,谁将当伴娘。如果我们把易于引起误解的代词的所指对象加以明确,意思就一目了然了。这个句子可改为:
Mary was friendly to my sister because she wanted my sister to be her bridesmaid.
例如:And we can also know the society by serving it yourself.
析:句中人称代词we和反身代词yourself指代不一致。
改为:We can also know society by serving it ourselves.
七.不间断句子(Run-on Sentences)。什么叫run-on sentence?请看下面的例句。
例如:There are many ways we get to know the outside world.
析:这个句子包含了两层完整的意思:“There are many ways.”以及“We get to know the outside world.”。简单地把它们连在一起就不妥当了。
改为:
There are many ways for us to learn about the outside world.或:
There are many ways through which we can become acquainted with the outside world.