英语语法。Fine quality as well as low price will help push the sales of your products 请各位大哥大姐告诉小弟,为什么sale后面要加S啊,,谢谢。
答:因为英语中的名词有可数和不可数之分。可数名词有单数和复数之分。可数名词的复数形式多在单数形式后加s。
名词的可数和不可数性不是一成不变的。很多抽象、物质名词都有两重性。sale表示抽象的概念“销售”时,是不可数名词,但是表示具体的不同产品的“销售量、额”时,又是可数的。这里就是这种情况。这种问题可能通过查词典加以自我解决:
sale
/seIl; sel/ n
1 [U] selling or being sold 卖; 出售; 销售
the sale of cars, clothes, machinery 汽车、 服装、 机器的销售
The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets. 这笔款是通过出售购物彩券筹集的.
2
(a) [C] act of selling sth 卖; 出售; 销售
I haven't made a sale all week. 我整个星期没有卖出东西.
She gets 10 commission on each sale. 她每出售一批货可得10英镑的佣金.
(b) sales [pl]
amount sold 销售额; 销售量
vast sales of ice-cream in the hot weather 天热时冰激凌的巨大销量
Sales are up (ie More goods have been sold) this month. 本月销售量增加.
3 [C] (in a shop, etc) occasion when goods are sold at lower prices than usual (商店等的)廉售, 贱卖
hold an end-of-season sale 举办季末大减价
the January sales, ie when many shops reduce their prices 元月大减价
buy goods at/in the sales 减价期间购物
从上面例子可见,这里的sales是销售量,还必须用复数形式。
问题补充:
We are satisfied with the quality of your samples, so the business depends entirely on your price.各位大哥大姐,还有这一句,depend后面也加了一个S是什么原因啊。
答:你这个问题让我感到奇怪。时态一致,主语为第三人称单数时,一般现在时的谓语动词用S形,你(应该是高中生了)会不知道?
So后面的这个句子的主语是the business ,是抽象名词,作第三人称单数的主语看等,一般现在时态,depend当然要用S形了。