英语专八改错答题技巧十：判断比较结构是否有误

爱思英语编者按：专八改错中常考的比较结构有：as...as，mor...than，the more...the more和the most。如果错误行出现比较结构的标志性词汇，则要判断其使用是否正确。

技巧10 判断比较结构是否有误

专八改错中常考的比较结构有：as...as，mor...than，the more...the more和the most。如果错误行出现比较结构的标志性词汇，则要判断其使用是否正确。需要注意的是并非所有的最高级前都要用the，当most表示“很，非常”的意思时，不是最高级，不需要用the来限定。

真题例证1

complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say the things its speakers want to say.(1)____

分析：本句的意思是“每种语言都可以让使用者说出他们想要表达的内容”，即任何一种语言都与其他语言一样具备这种功能，故应采用be as well equipped as的形式，即在well前添加as，构成同级比较。

真题例证2

the fault of their language. The Eskimos, it is said, can speak about snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in English but this is not because the Eskimo language(5)____

分析：本句是指爱斯基摩语对于雪的描述比英语更精确、更细致，此处的further本身也是比较级，不能用来修饰比较级，应改作much或far用来加强比较的程度，或删除further。 

真题例证3

His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he uses actively and that which he recognises, increases in size as he grows old, as a result of education and experience.(6)____

分析：grow old意为“变老”。此处应表示“随着年龄增大”，应当说成“as he grows older”。

真题例证4

Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed families between 1940 and 1960 also reduced the divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to(6)____

分析：表示“同等重要”的equally significant应删除中间的more，否则，逻辑上语义不通。因此，前面虽然出现了比较级“Less noted...”，后面的more仍要删去。

真题例证5

...A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have "less meaning", and in fact some grammarians have called them(1)____

分析：该行所在的上下文没有出现比较对象，因此most并不表示最高级，而是一个修饰形容词obvious的程度副词，意即“非常，很”，故前面不需the。