許多外國學生,事實上,大多數學英語的外國學生,沒有正確地使用recommend或suggest用法。
第5題要求你使用“recommend”或“suggest”。
使用“recommend”或“suggest”代詞時要小心。例如以下範例是錯的
He recommended the museum to me.
正確的用法應該是:
He recommended that I should go to the museum.
這和“suggest”是一樣的。
Wrong — — → He suggested me that restaurant. ← — — Wrong
He suggested that restaurant to me.
He suggested that I should go to that restaurant.
所以你要用recommend或suggest加賓語加間接賓語代詞
現在,如果你開始說得很好,你可以使用一個技巧,以英語為母語的人使用。他們經常省略“that”和“should”。
例如:
They recommended that we should visit the planetarium. ← — correct
但是,以英語為母語的人可能會把這句話縮短為:
They recommended we visit the planetarium.
你看到他們如何去掉“that”和“should”了嗎?
現在,小心!有時你可以把“recommend”和“suggest”與賓語代詞連用。例如:“He recommended me for the position of teacher to the principal.”“我”在這裡起作用是因為它真的應該是一個對象。
在這裡行不通:“他推薦我去申請一份工作。””me”不是這裡的客體而是間接客體。”He recommended applying for the job to me.” Or: He recommended that I should apply for the job. Or: He recommended I apply for the job.
那麼如何在問題5中使用recommend或suggest呢?你可能會說:“在聽力部分,我們聽說這個學生的朋友向他推薦了兩條建議。”
使用以上三種正確的表格來修正這些錯誤:
1. I recommended him to eat his veggies.
2. She recommended you to call your mother.
3. We suggested them to climb the mountain.
4. You suggested us to drive slowly.
5. They recommended us to see the opera.
答案如下:
1. I recommended eating veggies to him. I recommended that he should eat his veggies. I recommended he eat his veggies.
2. She recommended calling your mother (to you). ‘to you’ isn’t really necessary here because of the possessive pronoun ‘your’. She recommended that you should call your mother. She recommended you call your mother.
3. We suggested climbing the mountain to them. We suggested that they should climb the mountain. We suggested they climb the mountain.
4. You suggested driving slowly to us. You suggested that we should drive slowly. You suggested we drive slowly.
5. They recommended seeing the opera to us. They recommended that we should see the opera. They recommended we see the opera.