【交流区】我错你改聊语法(英语语法)*1*

风满楼

Driveways and Parkways

问：
Why do you park on a driveway, and drive on a parkway?

答：
The usages are extended from the base meanings of the words, and are consistent with these meanings.

A "park" is a place set aside for a specific purpose.

The English word way is the equivalent of the Latin word via, meaning "road" or "path." Thus a "parkway" is a road (way) through a park. The road is used by cars, thus you can drive on a parkway, that is you can drive on the road (way) through the park.

The term driveway originated as the designation for the place you drive you car into at the house, like from the gate of the farm, or estate, to the house. When you got to the end of the driveway, you would park the car. ("Park," as in the meaning described above, because you are putting the car in the place designated for the car, that is the car park.)

The term driveway was thus established and continued to be used, even when people with tract houses had only a short "way" to drive to the house, so the place where you drive the car into by any house is called a driveway.

It is still consistent with the base meaning and broader usage of the term in that you "drive" into and onto the "way" designated for the car for that dwelling.

风满楼

至于那个我们最常犯的错误就是使用不指定的单数名词时，往往忽略了 a/an，例：
Sam is tall boy. 正确：Sam is a tall boy.
Miss Lim is teacher. 正确：Miss Lim is a teacher.
ostrich is bird. 正确：An ostrich is a bird.

还有路上到底用 on 还是 in，也是很头疼的问题...... 唉！英文.....
暂时找不到好的解说资料，随便看看一些普通的用法：
我住在香蕉路：I live in/on Banana Road.
但如果说出门牌则用 at ：I live at 13 Banana Road.
在路上 on the way ：I'm on the way to the to the shopping mall.
他把车停放在车道上：He parked his car on/in the drive/driveway.
我们的家在榴莲街：Our house is in/on Durian Street. （in:英式 / on:美式）
。。。。。。

风满楼

新题：

We could go to the mall yesterday, but we decided to stay home.

ppr350

We could have gone to the mall yesterday, but we decided to stay at home.

风满楼

We could have gone to the mall yesterday, but we decided to stay at home.
ppr350 发表于 30-8-2011 06:40 PM

正解。
这么快.....

住在爱尔兰，英语进步快吗？

风满楼

新题：

I didn't hear the phone rang. I must be asleep.

ppr350

正解。
这么快.....

住在爱尔兰，英语进步快吗？
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 18:52

会话进步会很快（前提是一定要多讲啦）但是语法就真的有时会很困难，常常会犯错。

ppr350

新题：

I didn't hear the phone rang. I must be asleep.
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 18:53

I didn't hear the phone rang, I must have asleep.

风满楼

I didn't hear the phone rang, I must have asleep.
ppr350 发表于 30-8-2011 06:59 PM

不行，有一个错误显示基础语法的欠缺。

jose

正解。
这么快.....

住在爱尔兰，英语进步快吗？
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 06:52 PM

    他住在爱尔兰？

风满楼

他住在爱尔兰？
jose 发表于 30-8-2011 08:25 PM

嗯，移民过去。

ppr350

不行，有一个错误显示基础语法的欠缺。
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 19:01

I didn't hear the phone ring, I must have asleep.

风满楼

I didn't hear the phone ring, I must have asleep.
ppr350 发表于 30-8-2011 09:06 PM

ring 改对了，
但那个“刺中你脆弱心灵”的那个错误还在。

ppr350

ring 改对了，
但那个“刺中你脆弱心灵”的那个错误还在。
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 21:20

你有看到那个贴呀？

ppr350

I didn't hear the phone ring, I must have fell asleep.

风满楼

你有看到那个贴呀？
ppr350 发表于 30-8-2011 09:29 PM

提醒那里还保留着。

I didn't hear the phone ring, I must have fell asleep.
ppr350 发表于 30-8-2011 09:31 PM

还是不行......

ppr350

难道是：
Didn't hear the phone ring, I must have fell asleep.

潇湘夜雨

應該是 I must have been asleep

ChloeMoretz

Didn't hear the phone rang, i sure as hell/sure as heck was asleep.

对吗？

ChloeMoretz

正解。
这么快.....

住在爱尔兰，英语进步快吗？
风满楼 发表于 30-8-2011 06:52 PM

为什么是could have gone? 可以解释吗？