倒装句的用法

李国勤

一、概念

英语句子通常有两种语序:一种主语在前,谓语在后,称为自然语序；另一种谓语在前,主语在后,称为倒装语序。

二、相关知识点精讲

按“主语+谓语” 这种顺序排列的句子是陈述语序。如果排列顺序变为“谓语（或谓语一部分）+主语”，就是倒装。倒装句分为：

完全倒装： 整个谓语移至主语前面叫完全倒装。

部分倒装： 只把助动词、系动词或情态动词放在主语之前叫部分倒装。

1.当以there, here, out, in, up, down, away等副词开头的句子，为了起到强调的作用，可构成倒装句，只把副词放在句首，主语和谓语位置调换，不加助动词。

Our teacher came in.

In came our teacher.

这种倒装要求：①主语必须是名词。主语是人称代词时，主语和谓语语序不变。

Here it is.

Away he went.

②这类倒装句式一般只用一般现在时和一般过去时。

Here comes the bus.

Out rushed the boys.

2.how, then, just, often等表示时间的副词放在句首，可构成倒装句，只把副词放在句首，主语和谓语位置调换，不加助动词。

Then came 8 years of the Anti Japanese War.

3.表地点状语的介词短语放在 句首，要用倒装句式，以示强调。

这种倒装句也是主谓直接调换位置，不加助动词did, does或do。

Under a big tree ____, half asleep.

A. did sat a fat man B. a fat man sat

C. did a fat man sat D. sat a fat man

4.there放在句首时，要用倒装句式。

在“there+be”结构中的谓语动词有时不用be , 而用表示类似“存在”观念的其他不及物动词。如：live, stand, come, lie, flow, enter, rise 和appear等。

There came shouts for help from the river.

There lies a large wheat field in front of the house.

Many years ago there lived an old man in the wooden house.

In front of the tower flows a stream.

5.so+动词+主语

neither/nor+动词+主语

表示两人的同样一种情况时，只能表示一件事，即上、下句所使用的动词、时态要一致。

否则要用so it is with…。

You can ride a bike. So can I.

He has been to Beijing. So have I.

The first one isnt good, neither is the second.

His uncle is a worker and has been working in the factory for more than ten years. So it is with his aunt.

6.so+形容词/副词that的结构状语从句可以用正常语序表示，也可以把so+形容词/副词放于句首构成倒装。句型如下： so+形容词/副词+be/助动词/情态动词that+从句。

Light travels so fast that it is difficult for us to imagine its speed.

=So fast does light travel that it is difficult for us to imagine its speed.

So easy was the work that they finished it in a few days.

7.done作形容词在句中作表语时，常把表语放在句首，要用倒装句式。

Gone forever are the days when the Chinese people had to use foreign oil.

8.否定副词not, never, seldom, nowhere, little, rarely放于句首时要用倒装句式。

We seldom get up at four in the morning.=Seldom do we get up at four in the morning.

Not a single word from him could the enemy drag.

Rarely have I heard of such a silly thing.

9.hardly…when; scarcely…when…; no sooner…than…可以用正常语序had hardly done when…did或用倒装句式Hardly had+主语+done when…did句式。hardly所在的句子用过去完成时。

The bell hardly had rung when the class began.=Hardly had the bell rung when the class began.

No sooner had he arrived in Beijing than he began to work.

10.not only…but also 如连接两个成分时，不用倒装；连接句子时， 前面的句子要用倒装。

Not only was everything that he had taken away from him, but also his German citizenship.

Not only is he busy, but also I have a lot of work to do.

Not only does he speak English very well, but also he speaks French well.

11.only及所修饰的副词、介词短语或状语从句放在句首时，要用：

Only+状语+be/助动词/情态动词+主语及其他。

Only when he told me the news did I know what had happened.

Only in this way can you make progress in your English.

12.虚拟语气中的倒装句(详见虚拟语气的用法)。

If I were you, I would take the job.=Were I you, I would take the job.

三、巩固练习

1. ____ and caught the mouse.

A. Up the cat jumped B. The cat up jumped

C. Up jumped the cat D. Jumped up the cat

2. ____ and the lesson began.

A. In came Mr Brown B. Mr Brown in came

C. In came he D. Came in Mr Brown

3. Over ____, dead.

A. rolling the goat B. rolled the goat

C. did the goat roll D. the goat rolled

4. ——Where is my shirt, Mum?

——____.

A. There is it B. There it is C. There is D. Here is it

5. ——Where is your father?

——Oh, ____.

A. here he comes B. he here comes

C. here does he come D. here comes he

6. The door opened and there ____.

A. enters an old man B. entered an old man

C. did an old man enter D. an old man entered

7. Now ____ your turn to recite the text.

A. will come B. comes C. has come D. there is

8. Often ____ them not to smoke here.

A. we advised B. advised we

C. did we advise D. had we advised

9. ____ playing at soldiers.

A. Inside the room were two boys

B. Inside the room two boys

C. Were two boys inside the room

D. Inside the room was two boys

10. On the wall ____ two large portraits.

A. are hanging B. hanged C. hang D. hangs

11. ____ who was wounded in the stomach.

A. Among them were a soldier B. Among them was a soldier

C. Among them a soldier was D. Among they was a soldier

12. Next door to ours ____, who is no less than eighty.

A. that lives an old man B. does an old man live

C. lives an old man D. where lives an old man

13. She plays the piano very well, ____.

A. so every one of us does B. every one of us does

C. so does every one of us D. so do every one of us

14. You say he works hard, ____, and ____.

A. so he does; so you do B. so he does; so do you

C. so does he; so do you D. so does he; so you do

15. ——I thought you women were present at the meeting.

——____.

A. So we were B. So we did C. So were we D. So did we

16. Only until I finished all my work ____ to play CS games.

A. I started B. did I start

C. I started D. do I start

17. She is fond of cooking, ____ I.

A. so am B. nor am

C. neither do D. nor do

18. Marx was born in Germany and German was his native language. ____.

A. So it was with Engles B. So was it with Engles

C. So was Engles D. So did Engles

19. A fish needs water and without water it will die. ____.

A. So does a man B. So will a man

C. So it is with a man D. So is it with a man

20. So absorbed ____ the work that she often forgot to ____ her meals.

A. had she been in; do B. she was in; make

C. was she in; take D. she had been in; have

21. So loudly ____ that every one of the class could hear him.

A. did he speak

B. did he spoke

C. spoke he D. he spoke

22. ____ his appearance that no one could recognize him.

A. Strange so was B. So strange was

C. Was so strange D. So was strange

23. Not once ____ their plan.

A. did they change B. they changed

C. changed they D. they did change

24. Never ____ such a wonderful place as Hangzhou.

A. are seeing B. had I seen C. I have seen D. have I seen

25. Seldom ____ TV during the day.

A. they watch B. are they watching

C. have they watched D. do they watch

26. Nowhere ____ as in my garden.

A. the flowers were so beautiful B. were the flowers so beautiful

C. so beautiful were the flowers D. so beautiful the flowers were

27. Hardly ____ his homework when he went out.

A. finished he B. he had finished

C. did he finish D. had he finished

28. Scarcely ____ finished their homework ____ I came into the

classroom.

A. had they; than B. they had; when

C. had they; when D. did they; when

29. Not only ____ a promise, but also he kept it.

A. has he made B. does he make

C. he made D. did he make

30. Not until his comrades criticized him ____ to admit his mistake.

A. had he begun B. began he

C. did he begin D. does he begin

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