語法功能區別
and
and在英語語法中叫做coordinating conjunction,意思是引導主語從句的連詞。簡單來說,在"I ate a cheeseburger and I drank a glass of juice"中,"I ate a cheeseburger"和"I drank a glass of juice"都是主句(語義重要性相同)。(在這句話中因為兩個主句的主語相同,都是I,所以可以省略第二個主語,變成"I ate a cheeseburger and drank a glass of juice"。如果主語和動詞都一樣,那麼它們在第二個主句裡都可以省略。比如"I ate a cheeseburger and some chips"。寫這兩句是為了和後面做對比。)
(對語法感興趣的同學可以閱讀下面這段)
英語裡一共只有7個coordinating conjunction,首字母縮寫是FANBOYS,它們分別是:for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so。subordinating conjunction則很多,比如before, after, if, unless, because, 它們引導的是從句(語義地位沒有主語重要)。
as well as
as well as不是一個連詞(conjunction),所以它既不引導主語也不引導從句。語法上它起的是介詞的功能,也就是後面要跟名詞短語,或者動名詞短語。
因此"I ate a cheeseburger and drank a glass of juice"不能改寫成"I ate a cheeseburger as well as drank a glass of juice"。而應該是"I ate a cheeseburger as well as drinking a glass of juice" (意為:我不僅喝了一杯果汁,還吃了一個芝士漢堡)。而"I ate a cheeseburger and some chips"中的and可以換成as well as,因為後面的"some chips"是名詞短語。但語義上會發生變化。"I ate a cheeseburger as well as some chips"意為"我不僅吃了一些薯條,還吃了一個芝士漢堡"。