托福口语中有些错误是中国考生容易忽视却经常发生的。小站教育汇总了一些易错点,希望同学们有则改之、无则加勉。
My teacher gave interesting assignments and motivating the students.
很显然,这属于混用语法结构的一个典型错误。这会使句子产生歧义:难道是说My teacher gave interesting and motivating assignments to the students?造成这种问题的原因在于本句中interesting和motivating是平行结构。或者是My teacher gave interesting assignments and motivated the students?因为亦可以理解成gave和 motivated是平行结构,所以错误使用语法会带来许多意想不到的麻烦。
当我们重复使用一个短语或单词的时候,不仅会给人以词汇量过小的感觉,有时甚至也会造成误解。我们来看一个例子:
My teacher wrote the assignment on the chalkboard. The assignment was on the chalkboard until the teacher erased the assignment after we had all done the assignment.
事实上这句话的观点会更加清晰,如果我们将重复的词替换为其他表达的话。我们再来看看改进后的表达:
My teacher wrote the assignment on the chalkboard. She erased the board after we had all completed the task.
其中 assignment 被替换为 task,teacher 变为了she,chalkboard 被改为了board。不但句子显得更加生动活泼不刻板,信息量也比原来要多了。
希望同学们能从上面这些例子中得到启发,从而举一反三,灵活应用,相信通过你不断的练习和努力,托福口语高分指日可待。