陳思's 心英文法---英文心法

最近才發現,陳先生學的「連綴動詞」和別人學的不一樣,有高手級的網友(不只一人)質問陳先生:「連綴動詞」是用在S+V+SC的句型中,為何陳先生說S+V+O+OC的句型也是「連綴動詞」?並且質問陳先生說S+V+O+OC的句型是「連綴動詞」的出處。

茲引用"Principles and Practice of English Grammar," by George O. Curme, New York BARNE & NOBLE INC."原文(P.105~106)如下:

B. A Verb of Incomplete Predication + Complement

A verb of incomplete predication is called a copula or a linking verb, a verb which of itself had little meaning, merely linking the real predicatee to the subject. If such verb had much concrete meaning, they couldn't serve as links, because they would attract attention to themselves away from the real predicate. Yet they all have a little concrete meaning, each verb containing something not found in the others, thus differentiating our expression. The following are the most common of these linking verbs: appear, become, come, fall, feel, get, go, grow, happen, keep, leave off, lie, look, loom, prove, rank, remain, rest, run, seem, sit, smell, sound, stand, stay, taste, turn, turn out, etc.

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a) Appositional Type of Sentence.

Originally there was no linking verbs between the subject and the predicate adjective, noun, or adverb. In primitive expression it was considered sufficient to place the predicate adjective, noun, or adverb alongside the subject, either before or after it,the predicate word lying next the subject like an appositive explaining it, predicating something of it. In colloquial speech this old type of sentence is still common: Poor fellow! A man overboard! Everybody gone? Our sister dead? Compare §15.C.

This old type, however, has great disadvantages for higher literary purpose: it cannot indicate time or modal relations.The introduction of a large number of linking verbs which had forms for the expression of tense and mood was a marked improvement of speech. But we still always use this old type when we predicate a noun, adjective, or adverb: He called me a liar, He thought me crazy. See §65.C.1.a.

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綜上所述,He called me a liar. He thought me crazy. 都是S+V+O+OC,所以陳思的"心英文法"說:S+V+SC的句型(不完全不及物動詞), S+V+O+OC的句型(不完全及物動詞),全都叫做「連綴動詞」(不完全動詞即是"連綴動詞",需要補語的動詞即是"連綴動詞")。

對了!說:S+V+SC的句型中,叫做「不完全不及物動詞」才是「連綴動詞」; S+V+O+OC的句型,只能叫做「不完全及物動詞」不是「連綴動詞」,編輯教科書的,教育部到教大學的外文教授們,可不可以換你們告訴我,S+V+O+OC的句型,只能叫做「不完全及物動詞」不是「連綴動詞」的出處?

原文中Compare §15.C.和See §65.C.1.a.滿是S+V+O+OC的句型,是「連綴動詞」的例句,作者和書名提供如上,任何誤謬尚祈不吝賜教。「連綴動詞」的名稱緣起請看這裡!