2020年军队职称英语考试语法辅导：虚拟语气

　虚拟语气

　　表示所说的不是事实，或者是不可能发生的情况，而只是一种愿望、假设或猜测。

　　1.表示和现在事实相反的假设：

　　He is honest. If he were dishonest, I should not trust him.

　　He is not alive. If he were alive today, he would be a hero.

　　2.表示和过去事实相反的假设：

　　If there had been no air, there would have been no living things.

　　You didn't come here yesterday. If you had come here yesterday, you would have seen him.

　　3.和将来事实相反的假设：

　　If he should be here tomorrow, he would call me up.

　　If it were to rain tomorrow, the match would be cancelled.

　　4.虚拟语气的一些其他用法

　　(1)在动词require, propose, recommend, suggest, demand, insist 和order等后面的宾语从句中，一般用虚拟语气.

　　例如：

　　I suggest that we (should) repair the machine at once.

　　The leader of the team ordered that all (should) finish the work by supper time.

　　He insisted that all (should) attend the meeting.

　　(2)在“It is time(that) +从句”的结构中，从句的谓语动词用过去式.

　　例如：It is time we went to work.

　　(3)在由as if, so that, in order that, as though等引导的状语从句中，也往往用虚拟语气形式。

　　例如: Annie treated me exactly as if I were a seeing and hearing child.

　　(4)虚拟语气在主语从句中的用法：在It is necessary (natural, strange, important) that等句型中，后面主语从句的谓语动词要用“should+动词原形”结构。本文|由中华会计网校独家整理。

　　例如：

　　It is strange that he should have been late for the meeting.

　　It is necessary that we should take the box away at once.

　　Ⅱ.职称英语测试点

　　1)Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, …

　　2)The chairman proposed that we should stop the meeting.

　　3)Skilled businessmen, scientists and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. One expert on cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in “airbuses”, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar.

　　4)Much of the fish landed at the ports would be wasted if it could not be taken quickly to inland towns.

　　5)Common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents found children had problems with it.

　　6)Without water, there could be no life.

　　7)Dr. Zunin suggests that these first few minutes together be treated with care.