第五章 动名词

动名词和现在分词的拼法相同，但是动名词属于名词类，现在分词却是当做形容词使用，两者词类不同。

动名词和普通名词的比较

• E.g. Let me buy you a drink.
• Drinking is his only vice.
• 动名词相对于普通名词而言，仍然保留了若干程度的“动作”意味，而且有持续性的暗示。
• I am not afraid of death, but I am scared of dying.

动名词与名词从句的比较

• I really enjoyed teaching English to school children at night.
• -> I really enjoyed that I taught English to school children at night.
• 动名词短语可以视为名词从句的变化。
• 如果主语不能省略的话
• I don't like that John calls my girlfriend day after day.
• I don't like calling my girlfriend day after day. (false)
• 动名词结构接近普通名词
• -> I don't like John's calling my grilfriend day after day.

动名词的被动态 being Ven

• That I was invited here is a great honor.
• 许多人不知道being 怎么用，其实being 这个词，没有任何意思，意义就在于-ing部分。-ing可能是现在分词，表示进行的暗示，或者是动名词，有词类变化的功能
• -> Being invited here is a great honor.
• 这就是动名词被动态的处理方式

1. I just took a swim and don't feel like swimming now.
2. I resent being called a hypocrite, especially when I'm telling the truth.
3. The cats' screaming outside my window every night is getting on my nerves.
4. Learning a language is learning all about the culture.
5. Mountain-climbing is a very exacting sport.
6. In doing magic, the trick lies in diverting your audience.
7. The worker objected to being treated like slaves.
8. Everyone marveled at Michael Chang's winning the French Open.
9. If you don't mind my saying so, I think you are in the wrong.
10. He is used to lectures giving he's a teacher.