英语四级语法200条之名词所有格

英语名词所有格有两种：'s属格和of属格。

1)'s所有格的用法：

a)主要用于有生命的名词，例如：my brother's books, Mary's boyfriend, shee p's skin.

b)用于地理、国家机关、城市等名词，例如：Beijing's future, the government's dec ision.

c)用于时间、价值、距离、重量等名词，例如：today's assignment, ten dollars' wort h, five miles' distance, twenty pounds' weight.

d)表示理发店、商店等名词或一些习惯用法，例如：at the butcher's, at one's wit's end.

2) of所有格的用法：主要用于表示无生命的名词，例如：the door of the house, a ma p of China.

3)双重属格的用法：主要用来表示人的所有关系，例如：a friend of my brother's, two plays of Shakespeare's, some children of Mr. Brown's, these ideas of yours, th ose dirty shoes of James'.双重属格的名词前不能用the和one来修饰。

4)特殊所有格若一样东西为两人共有，后一个人名用所有格；如果不是两人共有，而是各有各的，则两个名词都用所有格，且其后名词应为复数。

【例如】The woman dressed in blue is Mary and Alice's mother.You should find what the difference between Mr. Smith's and Mr. Black's cars is.

【例句】

1)I walked too much yesterday and are still aching now. (CET-4 199 5,6)

A) my leg's muscles

B) my muscles of leg

C) my leg muscles

D) my muscle's of the leg

本题为名词作定语，不用所有格形式，故正确答案为C。

类似的用法还有：a woman doctor, a straw hat, a paper cover.

2)Despite the wonderful acting and well developed plot the movie could not hold our attention. (CET-1996,1)

A) threehours

B) threehour

C) threehours'

D) threehour's

threehour为复合形容词，作定语不能加's。另外，复合形容词作定语，其中名词保持单数，故A、C、D都不对。正确答案为B。三个小时的电影也可以表达为：three hours' movie .