英语名词所有格有两种: s属格和of属格。
1) s所有格的用法:
a)主要用于有生命的名词,例如:my brother s books, Mary s boyfriend, shee p s skin.
b)用于地理、国家机关、城市等名词,例如:Beijing s future, the government s dec ision.
c)用于时间、价值、距离、重量等名词,例如:today s assignment, ten dollars wort h, five miles distance, twenty pounds weight.
d)表示理发店、商店等名词或一些习惯用法,例如:at the butcher s, at one s wit s end.
2) of所有格的用法:主要用于表示无生命的名词,例如:the door of the house, a ma p of China.
3)双重属格的用法:主要用来表示人的所有关系,例如:a friend of my brother s, two plays of Shakespeare s, some children of Mr. Brown s, these ideas of yours, th ose dirty shoes of James .双重属格的名词前不能用the和one来修饰。
4)特殊所有格若一样东西为两人共有,后一个人名用所有格;如果不是两人共有,而是各有各的,则两个名词都用所有格,且其后名词应为复数。
【例如】The woman dressed in blue is Mary and Alice s mother.You should find what the difference between Mr. Smith s and Mr. Black s cars is.
【例句】
1)I walked too much yesterday and are still aching now. (CET-4 199 5,6)
A) my leg s muscles
B) my muscles of leg
C) my leg muscles
D) my muscle s of the leg
本题为名词作定语,不用所有格形式,故正确答案为C。
类似的用法还有:a woman doctor, a straw hat, a paper cover.
2)Despite the wonderful acting and well developed plot the movie could not hold our attention. (CET-1996,1)
A) threehours
B) threehour
C) threehours
D) threehour s
threehour为复合形容词,作定语不能加 s。另外,复合形容词作定语,其中名词保持单数,故A、C、D都不对。正确答案为B。三个小时的电影也可以表达为:three hours movie .