重点词汇

1．A large amount of educational software can also be found here.

在这儿也能发现大量的教育软件。

[归纳拓展]

(1)a large amount of大量的，修饰不可数名词。可修饰不可数名词的还有：much，a good/great deal of，large amounts of。

(2)用来修饰可数名词的有：many，many a，a large number of，large numbers of，a great/good many。

(3)既可修饰可数又可修饰不可数名词的有：a lot of，lots of，a quantity of，quantities of，plenty of。

注意：(1)amounts of/quantities of＋n.作主语时，谓语动词用复数。

(2)many a后接可数名词单数，谓语动词用单数，但意义上是复数，即"许多"。

(3)a number of后接可数名词复数，表示"许多，大量"，谓语动词用复数；the number of后接可数名词复数，表示"......的数目"，谓语动词用单数。

(4)a great many后一般不用of，但后接代词或所修饰的名词前有定冠词the，或后接指示代词these，those，物主代词my，their等时，需用of。

[语境助记]

(1)He sold a large amount of information illegally for money.

为了钱，他非法出售了大量的信息。

(2)A great many students love playing basketball.

许多学生喜欢打篮球。

(3)A great many of us don't like speaking English in class.

我们当中许多人不喜欢在课堂上讲英语。

[题组训练]

(1)用所给动词的适当形式填空

①Now a great number of college graduates (seek) to get a high­paid job.But the number of posts available for them (be) often not enough.

②Large quantities of cotton (ship) all over the world already.

(2) furniture are carried to supermarkets from the factory every day.

A．The number of B．A number of