名詞作狀語

在英語中可以用作狀語的主要有：形容詞，副詞或副詞短語，名詞或名詞短語，介詞短語，分詞，不定式以及從句。其中名詞及其短語作狀語的情況許多語法書上沒有過多的詳解，現(xiàn)就教學(xué)中遇到的名詞及其短語可用作狀語的現(xiàn)象作一些簡單的歸納：

一、一些時間名詞

1．表示一段時間的名詞

Wait a moment!

That film will last two hours.

Take this medicine three times a day.

2.表示某一時間的名詞：如today， yesterday， tomorrow， the day before yesterday， the day after tomorrow， last Saturday， that day， this week， next year…等。

Some important figures will come to our school tomorrow.

I met an old friend last Saturday.

She was always there Saturday evening.

Be there six o’clock.

I’ll see you next Sunday.

3.表示習(xí)慣發(fā)生的時間。

In order to support a large family， he often works night.

為了養(yǎng)活一大家人，他經(jīng)常上夜班（他每天晚上上夜班）。

Jack had his day off Friday.杰克星期五休假（每逢周五休假）。

二、表示程度 這類狀語大多是表示數(shù)或量的概念的名詞。

The watch costs ten pounds.

The new type of car measures six feet long.

I suggest we get together some day.

The temperature fell five degrees after the rain.

The students at the summer camp matched 50 kilometres every day.

三、表示方向

Please come this way.

The wind blows east.

Most houses in the southern hemisphere （南半球）face north.

(這里的north相當于northward 或to the south)

四、表示方式

Don’t talk to me that way， please!

Many of us can’t speak English and will have to learn the words parrot fashion(鸚鵡學(xué)舌似地).

Go your own way let the other say.

Don’t care what people say.Just follow your own way.

His ambition was to meet his favourite pop star face to face.

英語中還有一類特殊的作狀語的名詞短語，即“名詞+介詞+名詞”短語。如：heart and soul 全心全意地; day after day每天，日復(fù)一日地； time after time反復(fù)，一再，屢次； bit by bit一點一點地，逐漸地； step by step逐步地，切切實實地，point for point詳細地，精確地； tooth for tooth 以牙還牙，針鋒相對地；shoulder to shoulder肩并肩地，齊心協(xié)力地；all in all總之，總計，從各方面而言；back to back，背靠背地，連續(xù)地；heart to heart開誠布公地，心連心地，推心置腹地，坦率地，誠懇地；…等等。

英語正日益向簡潔化方向發(fā)展，名詞或名詞短語作狀語的用法會越來越多，這里只是一些簡單的歸納，供同學(xué)們學(xué)習(xí)中參考。