Lesson 30 Football or polo? 足球还是水球？ 冠词 结果状语从句

I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons. §

on afternoons ^每逢下午

It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual.

Some children were playing games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the river.

• There is a girl crying in the classroom. ^{There be + n. ＋ 介词短语/doing}
• some people were rowing on the river. ^{使用there be 更能表现出语言独特(英文忌讳重复)}

Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them.

The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water.

I turned to look at the children, but there weren't any in sight: they had all run away!

there weren't any (children) ^{There be(is/are/was/were)}

The man laughed when he realized what had happened.

分类 §

• a / an 表示泛指^{(可数名词单数)}
• the 表示特指^{(名词单复数)}
• 零冠词 不加冠词^{(复数、专有名词，国家简写、人名、城市名等)}

人名和地名的前面，一般不加冠词，大多数情况都是专有名词

• John lives in England.
• He has a house in London.

海洋、河流、山脉和部分国名前，加定冠词the

• the Atlantic ^{大西洋（注意the的读音）}
• the Yellow River ^黄河
• The Great Wall ^万里长城
• the Yangtze River ^长江
• the Alps ^{阿尔卑斯山脉}
• the United States ^{普通名词 变过来的 专有名词，所有前面要加the。}
• America ^零冠词

当some与any都表示：“一些、许多”的时候，在句子类型中有以上的区别 §