Before用法扫描before一词在高中课本中出现频率极高,词性与意义也非常丰富,是较为常见的考点,同时又是学生学习的难点,现将它的用法归纳如下:1.作介词(1)表示时间,与after相对。如:August comes before September. 8月份在9月份之前。(2)表示顺序,与after 相对。如:Ladies before gentlemen.女士优先。(3)表示位置,与behind相对(相当于in front of)。如:Before Lucy is Lily. 莉莉在露茜的前面。(4)表示“在……面前;与……面对面”。如:The poor little boy was brought before the headmaster. 那个可怜的小男孩被带到校长面前。(5)表示“宁可……而不愿……”。如:Death before dishonour. 宁死不辱。2. 作副词(1)表示“以前;已经”,单独在句中作状语,句子常用完成时态。如:I have seen that film before.我以前看过那部电影。注意:①区别于ago:ago用在时间段之后,表示某个时间点,句子用一般过去时。如:I saw that film three years ago.我三年前看了那部电影。②含有ago 时间状语的直接引语变间接引语时,ago 应变为before。如:He said to me, “I saw that film three years ago.”→He told me that he had seen that film three years before.(2)指空间或位置,表示“在前面”。如:Look at the page before.看前面一页。3.作连词before作连词用时,引导时间状语从句。如:I must finish my homework before I watch TV.我必须做完作业才能看电视。It still took seven years before they finally got married. 过了七年他们才最终得以成婚。It will be only a few minutes before she comes back. 她过几分钟就会回来。注意:before从句若是一个将来的动作,则用一般现在时代替一般将来时,如上句中的comes。4. 几个需要注意的地方(1)ever before,单独用作状语,表示“以前”;ever since, 单独用作状语,表示“自从那时以来”;ever after, 单独用作状语,表示“以后;后来”。(2)before long,单独用作状语,表示“不久以后”,其中long 为名词,后面不接任何成分;long before:①单独用作状语,表示“很久以前”,其中before为副词,其后不接任何成分;②表示“在……之前很久”,其中before用作介词或连词,后可接名词、动名词、代词或从句。(3)when/ while/ if/ unless/ once/ even though 等引导从句时,如果从句主语和主句的主语相同或为it,并且从句谓语含有be动词,则可以省略从句的主语和be动词部分,形成“when / while / if / unless /once /even though +V-ing或V-ed分词”结构;但是before和after 则不用这一句式,二者后只接动名词或者完整的从句。如:①When (it is ) translated into English, the word means “newspaper”.其中it is可省略②Before being operated on, he took some special medicine.其中being operated on 为动名词的被动式,being 不可省略。 我来自英语牛人团!