關於英語專業八級的改錯練習
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough
and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical __1__ words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them __2__ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather __3__ misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the is not the name __4__ of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a __5__ sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words __6__ differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in __7__ the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”
But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words.” __8__ of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. __9__ Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:
we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is __10__ illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
答案：
1 刪掉the 此處的most並不表示obvious的.最高階，而是用作副詞修飾obvious，表示程度很高，因此前面不能加the。
2 將but改為and 根據文章的意思，這裡要用並列關係的and。
3 將in改為to。 as apposed to 是固定搭配，意思是“與……相比”。
4 將misled改為misleading
5刪掉away。 此處考查固定用法。 far from being...意思為“遠非”“遠遠不怎麼樣”，符合這裡的意思。而far away from 表示離某處很遠。
6 將single改為only或者sole。這裡要表達“唯一的”。
7 在as後面加to或者將as 改為in。聯絡上下文，此處的意思是“grammatical words 本身在某某方面也有相當的差異，”as to 有“關於”或者“在某某方面的意思”；將as改為in，用differ from something in…也可表達這個意思。
8 將mean改為means
9 將as改為like，或者在as前面加such
10 將number改為deal或者amount。obscurity是不可數名詞，不能用a number of 來修飾。
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