三、不加冠词的基本规则

1.季节、月份、日期前一般不加冠词。

If winter comes can spring be far behind?

We have few classes on Sunday.

10.1 is National Day.

2.表示球类、棋类、三顿饭的名词前通常不加冠词，但乐器前需加定冠词。

What did you have for lunch?

Dinner is ready.

Lets go and watch them play chess.

My elder brother likes to play football.

The boys are learnig to play the guitar.

play the piano

play the violin

3.有些固定词组中的名词前不加冠词。

at noon at night at dawn at midnight in the morning

in the afternoon in the evening in the daytime in town

in front of (at the back of) at distance (in the distance)

as a whole on the whole to catch cold to have a cold

冠词考试重点

冠词所占比例不大，一般是1分或2分。

1、什么时候加定冠词。

2、可数名词单数出现，必须用a或an或定冠词修饰，不能单独出现。

3、什么情况下，不用加冠词。

冠词易考：

1、冠词修饰名词。

Please go _____ upstairs after you have finished the lunch.

upstairs是副词，前面不需要加冠词。

2、可数名词单数泛指，前面加不定冠词。an用于读音以元音开头的单词前。

Reading English story books is a good way of improving your English.

I have been waiting for him for half an hour.

3、名词特指时，前面加定冠词。

He is enjoying his stay in Denmark， but has some difficulty with the language.

Is the water from the tap fit for drink?

4、可数名词的复数和不可数名词泛指，前面不加冠词;大部分专有名词前也不加冠词。

As we know， the most dangerous enemies are those who pretend to be friends.

They left for work after supper.

The film includes some recently discovered newsreels of World War II .(the Sencond World War)

5、冠词在固定词组中的特定用法。

Without any news from Tom for a long time， his father left for Shanghai to see him.

They will travel by air.

I will help you for the sake of your sister.(for the sake of 因为)

I will go to school on foot.

My mother is in hospital.

He has been in prison for two years.

典型例题

1. ______ film includes some recently discovered newsreels of _______ World War II.

A. The; the B. A; the C. The; / D. A; /

World War II是专有名词

答案：C

2. Can you play _____?

A. piano B. pianos C. a piano D. the piano

答案：D

3. “Youve been very busy lately.”

“So busy I havent had time to clean my house. There is _____ wherever you look.”

A. dust B. a dust C. the dust D. dusts

dust 是不可数名词

答案：A

4. The station? Take the second turning _______.

A. to left then go straight on B. on the left， then go straight on

C. to left， then go right forward D. to the left， then go right forward

on the left 在左边

答案：B

5. My mother usually has _____ bed.

A. the breakfast B. breakfast in

C. the breakfast in the D. breakfast in the

in bed 躺在床上

答案：B

in the bed 在床里面

6. He stole the money and they put him _________.

A. at prison B. at the prison C. in prison D. in the prison

in prison 进监狱

答案：C

7. Even on Sundays， fewer people go to ______ church than before.

A. the B. a C. / D. that

go to church 去教堂 go to school 去学校 go to bed 上床睡觉 go to college 去大学

答案：C

8. _________ look much alike.

A. Smiths sisters B. Smith sisters C. Two Smith sisters D. The Smith sisters

表示一家人，前面加 the

答案 D