2015年在职工硕GCT英语考试词汇语法复习(9)

　　动名词

　　动名词也是动词的一种非限定形式，由动词原形加词尾-ing构成。与现在分词构成法相同。它同时具有动词及名词特征。以下主要介绍其做定语及状语的情况。

　　1) 作定语。例如：

　　None is allowed to smoke in the waiting room.

　　The speeding car came to a stop all of a sudden.

　　2) 作状语。

　　介词+动名词可以作状语用，表示时间、原因、目的、让步、方式等。例如：

　　After finishing the job, he went home.

　　He was blamed for having done something wrong.

　　They went to Manchester with the object of winning the World Championship.

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