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

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。

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.