一:动名词的特性和普通名词的区别
1.动名词带有动作性和持续性。
2.动名词部分是可数的,可以加所有格,冠词。
二:动名词短语和名词从句的比较
1.主句和从句主语一致,直接采取省略的基本原则:
I really enjoyed teaching English to school student at night.
I really enjoyed that I taught English to school stduent at night. -----> I really enjoyed ( that I was ) teaching English to school student at night.
2.若主句和从句主语不一致,则采取下面的方法:
I don't like that ( john calls my girlfriend day after day ). 括号内是名词性的从句
因为call是一个持续的过程改为calling更贴切一些
I don't like ( that ) john's calling my girlfriend day after day. 括号内的that可以省略
3.动名词的被动态
That I was invited here is a great honor.
如果直接省略I was 和 tha t的话看起来有点别扭,而且形容词不能做主语,必须想办法将 invited 变成名词才行,invitation 或者 inviting都是很好的方案
Being invited here is a great honor.
三:动名词和现在分词的区分
其实这个判断相对简单多了,最基本的方法就是通过简单句型判断,如果ving放在补语的位置是通顺的,则ving是现在分词,否则就是名词(也许是复合名词)。