文档介绍：浅析形容词和副词同形的兼类词用法
在英语中有些词既可作形容词,又可作副词,这类词被称做兼类词。本文就常见的形容词和副词的同形的兼类词用法做一分析和归纳,供大家参考。
一、有少数表示时间的名词加-ly组成的形容词hourly, daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, yearly可作副词。此外, bi-weekly, bi-monthly等也可以作副词。
a. They advertised for an engineer in several daily newspapers. (adj.) 他们在各种日报上登广告招工程师。
b. The newspaper is published daily. (adv.) 这报纸每天出版。
a. There is an hourly service of train to Nanjing. (adj.) 开往南京的火车每小时一列。
b. The buses run hourly. ( adv. once every hour) 汽车每小时开一班。
但是值得注意的是,像man, king, scholar这一类名词加上词尾-ly所构成的词只是形容词,不能用作副词。属于这一类的单词主要有:beastly, brother-ly, cowardly, (un)earthly, fatherly, (un)friendly, gentlemanly, heavenly, kingly, leisurely, sisterly, lively(由life+ly), masterly, motherly, (un)scholarly, womanly, worldly。
二、early, fast, dead, loud, half, long 和straight等词可用作形容词或副词。试比较:
a. They had an early breakfast.(adj.) 他们吃了一顿很早的早饭。
b. They had breakfast early. (adv.)他们很早就吃了早饭。
a. They went taking a fast train. (adj.) 他们乘快车走的。
b. Don’t speak so fast. (adv.) 不要讲得那么快。
a. The bomb exploded with a loud noise. (adj.) 那炸弹一声巨响,爆炸了。
b. Someone knocked loud at the door. (adv.)有人大声敲门。
a. They have had a long w