SAT语法:冒号的作用

2022-05-20 20:06:39

  在sat考试的语法部分,除了对一些基本知识点要有所掌握之外,还要对一些最基本的标点符号的用法有所了解,因为在汉语中标点符号也是有很多作用的,那么这两者是否一样呢,今天小编为大家汇总的就是

  冒号的作用既可以是完整句,也可以是不完整的。

  一、冒号的定义

  colon:a punctuation mark; used chiefly to direct attention to matter (as a list, explanation, quotation, or amplification) that follows.引出下文的解释说明或者要引用的内容。

  二、冒号的用法

  冒号后面既可以是完整句,也可以是不完整的。

  (1)What follows a colon may be a clause. (冒号后的内容通常对前面的句子起解释说明作用)

  e.g. He is a great athlete: he plays soccer, baseball and basketball.

  (2)or a group of words that cannot stand by themselves.

  e.g. He plays many sports: soccer, baseball and basketball.

  注意:冒号后的从句的常见功能是:进一步解释说明主句。

  例题详解

  例题1:

  It took me by surprise, then, when my favorite exhibit at the museum was one of it’s tiniest; the Thorne Miniature Rooms.

  A) NO CHANGE

  B) its tiniest;

  C) its tiniest:

  D) it’s tiniest,

  答案:C

  解析:根据语意,很明显“the Thorne Miniature Rooms”是在说明“the tiniest”的是哪个,符合冒号最常见的用法一解释说明。此用法为最常见考点。

  例题2:

  The summer of 2012 was the warmest in 170 years, records show. But Jason [15] Box, an associate professor of geology at Ohio State believes that another factor added to the early [16] thaw; the “dark snow”

  [16]

  A) NO CHANGE

  B) thaw; and it was

  C) thaw:

  D) thaw: being

  答案:C

  解析:because the colon signals that the other factor that contributed to the early thaw is about to be provided.

  因为thaw“消融”后面的the “dark snow”是对前面another factor“另一种因素的”的解释说明,这种“dark snow”就是另一种因素。

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