分级量词

分级量词让我们能对两件事的量做比较,但不会具体指出两件事的确切数量。分级量词后接的是名词,而可数名词和不可数名词会需要用上不同的量词。有时候,如果从语境中可以明确地知道比较的名词是何物,则可以省略名词。

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分级量词有比较级和最高级之分,其比较的是某个特性(形容词)的程度,或比较做某件事情的方式(副词)程度。分级量词(如比较级和最高级)在增加或减少的等级上,都有相应的位置。句中最高级量词前面一律加 the。

量词 比较级 最高级
如果后面是复数的可数名词
many more most
few fewer fewest
如果后面是不可数名词
much more most
little less least
举例
  • There are many people in England, more people in India, but the most people live in China.
  • Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defence.
  • Few rivers in Europe are not polluted.
  • Fewer people die young now than in the seventeenth century.
  • The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
  • Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before the year 2020.
  • She had less time to study than Paul but had better results.
  • Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.
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