【易錯點】Seven years old,還是seven year old?

2021-02-19 英語環球ChinaPlus

前段時間看新聞，瞧見這麼一句話：Seven years old Qiaoqiao has lived with a blind masseur surnamed Tian for five years...



突然想起，這是出現頻率極高的錯誤。

大多數有點語法基礎的同學都知道：如果有橫線，複數的s就沒了。比如： 7-story (building), 10-day (vacation), 3000-word (article)等等。如果沒有橫線，s就留著：7 stories, 10 days, 3000 words。

新聞裡的那句話沒有橫線（seven years old），所以留著s是對的？

不對！！！

決定有沒有s，關鍵不在於橫線，因為畢竟有人會忘記加橫線。有沒有s，取決於這個帶數字的部分是作表語還是定語。

不懂啥叫表語啥叫定語？


簡言之，表語是一句話裡用來說明主語的特徵、狀態等等的部分，一般跟在be動詞或become（成為）、look（看起來）、turn（變成）、go（變成）、seem（似乎）、appear（似乎、顯得）、feel（摸起來）、sound（聽起來）、smell（聞起來）這些連繫動詞的後面。

定語則是用來限定、修飾名詞/代詞的部分，所以位置在其限定或修飾的名詞/代詞前面。

舉例說明：

The movie is three hours long. （此句裡的「三個小時」是表語，說明movie的特徵，跟在be動詞is的後面，所以是three hours，有s。）

A three-hour movie is way too long for kids. （此句裡的「三個小時」是定語，用來限定movie，位置在movie之前，所以是three-hour，沒有s。）

由此可見，本文開頭給出的例子，應該是Seven-year-old Qiaoqiao has lived with a blind masseur surnamed Tian for five years... 因為這句裡的「七歲」是定語，用來限定Qiaoqiao，位置也在Qiaoqiao之前。

See? 其實很簡單！

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