部分倒装是指将谓语的一部分如助动词或情态倒装至主语之前。如果句中的谓语没有助动词或情态动词,则需添加助动词do,does或did,并将其置于主语之前。
1)句首为否定或半否定的词语,如no,not,never,seldom,little,hardly,atnotime,innoway,notuntil…等。
NeverhaveIseensuchaperformance.
Notuntilthechildfellasleepdidthemotherleavetheroom.
当Notuntil引出主从复合句,主句倒装,从句不倒装。
注意如否定词不在句首不倒装。
Ihaveneverseensuchaperformance.
典型例题
1)WhycantIsmokehere?
Atnotime___inthemeeting-room
A.issmokingpermittedB.smokingispermitted
C.smokingisitpermittedD.doessmokingpermit
答案A.这是一个倒装问题。当否定词语置于句首以表示强调时,其句中的主谓须用倒装结构。这些否定词包括no,little,hardly,seldom,never,notonly,notuntil等。本题的正常语序是Smokingispermittedinthemeeting-roomatnotime.
2)Notuntiltheearlyyearsofthe19thcentury___whatheatis.
A.mandidknowB.manknowC.didntmanknowD.didmanknow
答案D.看到Notuntil…的句型,我们知道为一倒装句,答案在C,D中选一个。
改写为正常语序为,Mandidnotknowwhatheatisuntiltheearlyyearsofthe19th.现在将not提前,后面就不能再用否定了,否则意思就变了。
以否定词开头作部分倒装
如Notonly…butalso,Hardly/Scarcely…when,Nosooner…than
Not only did here fuse thegi ft,healsoseverelycriticizedthesender.
Hardly had she gone out when a student came tovisither.