《文学原理教材》中的三处语法错误

仕   君

 挑刺书名：《文学原理教材》

出版单位：外语教学与研究出版社

书    号：ISBN7-5600-3608-2

出版时间：2004年7月第1版，2004年7月第1次印刷

该教材语言地道，通俗易懂，对于想了解文学基本原理的学习者来说是一本很好的文学教材。在学习该书第一部分过程中，笔者发现了以下三处语法错误，本着希望教材不断完善的愿望，现不揣冒昧提出来，就教于作者。

1. Yet we will surely find one element common to every reader’s expectations before examining a work of fiction. That is, the expectation that the work will tell a story. （第3页）

【分析】显然，That is前的句号应该为逗号，That的第一个字母应由大写改为小写，即全句应该为：Yet we will surely find one element common to every reader’s expectations before examining a work of fiction, that is, the expectation that the work will tell a story.

2. And yet, his novel has been regarded by many as one of the best war novels that has ever been written.（第3页）

【分析】定语从句that has ever been written修饰的应该是the best war novels，即先行词是复数，因此定语从句中的has 应该为have才符合英语语法。

3. The protagonist is an important figure at the center of the story’s action or the theme and whose conflict with an antagonist forms the central tension of a story.（第21页）

【分析】该句后半部分and whose conflict with an antagonist forms the central tension of a story显然不符合英语定语从句用法，应去掉and，并在whose前加逗号，处理成一个非限制性定语从句，即可作如下改进：The protagonist is an important figure at the center of the story’s action or the theme, whose conflict with an antagonist forms the central tension of a story.

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