灵活运用句式语法结构，你的托福写作才能拿高分！

托福写作考试，往往需要同学们，灵活运用不同的句式及语法结构，来展示自己的写作基本功。

而许多同学，因为不了解托福写作的评分原则，也不知道如何选择合适的语法结构，写作分数一直提不上去。

今天，小编就给同学们，分享6个托福写作中，选择运用语法结构的参考原则。

要知道，选择合适的语法结构，可以使句子意思的表达更为精确和简练。

虽然语法的多样性也很重要，但选择最恰当的语法结构，才是更为重要的考虑因素。以下是我推荐的，在考虑选择何种语法结构时，可以参考的写作原则：

1. 一个句子的主语和谓语动词，应该能够反映句子中的最重要的意思。例如：

The situation that resulted in my grandfather’s not being able to study engineering was that his father needed help on the farm.

从意思上来分析，上面这句话，需要表达的重要概念是“grandfather’s not being able to study”，而在表达这个概念时，原句用的主语是situation，谓语动词是was，不能强调需要表达的重点概念，可以改为下面这句话：

My grandfather couldn’t study engineering because his father needed help on the farm.

2. 避免频繁使用“there be”结构，例如下面的句子：

There were 25 cows on the farm that my grandfather had to milk every day. It was hard work for my grandfather.

可以改为：My grandfather worked hard. He had to milk 25 cows on the farm every day.

更简洁的句式为：

My grandfather worked hard milking 25 cows daily.

3. 把从句改为短语或单词。例如：

Dairy cows were raised on the farm, which was located100 kilometers from the nearest university and was in an area that was remote.

更简洁的表达方式为：

The dairy farm was located in a remote area, 100 kilometers to the nearest university.

4. 仅在需要强调宾语，而不是主语的时候，才使用被动语态。例如：

In the fall, not only did the cows have to be milked, but also the hay was mowed and stacked by my grandfather’s family.

本句不够简洁的原因，是句子重心应该是“忙碌的家庭-my grandfather’s family”，而使用了被动语态后，仿佛重心变成了cows和hay。

下面的表达方式是主动语态，相对来说更简洁一些：

In the fall, my grandfather’s family not only milked the cow but also mowed and stacked the hay.

5. 用更为精确的一个动词，来代替动词短语，例如下面这句话：

My grandfather didn’t have time to stand around doing nothing with his school friends.

Stand around doing nothing其实可以用一个动词来表达，即loiter：

My grandfather didn’t have time to loiter with his school friends.

6. 有时两句话的信息，经过组合完全可以，用一句话来简练表达，例如：

Profits from the farm were not large. Sometimes they were too small to meet the expenses of running a farm. They were not sufficient to pay for a university degree.

两句话的信息，可以合并为下面这句更为简洁的句子：

Profits from the farm were sometimes too small to meet operational expenses, let alone pay for a university degree.

以上就是托福写作中，选择合适语法结构的参考原则实例讲解。

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