英语的状语主要有三种，一种是修饰性状语，即修饰谓语；二是评注性状语，即用于发表评论或表明看法；三是连接性状语，它在句子中既不起修饰作用，也不表明态度或看法，而是用于句子间起承接作用。如：
He did it carefully. 他做这事很仔细。(carefully为修饰性状语)
He is mad, I think. 我看他是疯了。（I think为评注性状语）
He learns easily, and what’s more, he remembers what he has learnt. 他学习起来很容易，而且他所学习过的都记得住。(what’s more为连接性状语)
二、评注性状语的种类
1. 用来解释说话方式。如：
To be honest, I don’t like him at all. 老实说，我根本不喜欢他。
Generally speaking, men can run faster than women. 一般说来，男人比女人跑得快一些。
Frankly, I look upon it as a promising experiment. 坦白地讲，我把它看作一次很有希望的试验。
2. 用来解释说话者对自己所述事情的可能性和真实性所持的态度。如：
Perhaps it will, perhaps it won’t. 也许会，也许不会。
You no doubt know what’s happened. 你想必已经知道发生了什么事情。
Certainly they must know the results of such speeches. 肯定他们知道这样发言的后果。
3. 用来表示说话者对自己所叙述或所描写的事情所持的态度。这些状语常用于表现说话者对所述事情是好还是坏的看法和评判。如：
Luckily, the police came in time. 幸亏警察及时赶到。
The syllabuses of military academies were understandably dominated by the study of conventional war. 可以理解的是，军事学院的课程大纲把学习常规战争摆在主导地位。
4. 用来表示或强调说话者对自己叙述的动作的实施者所持的态度。说话者用这些状语把自己对这种人的行为的看法表示出来。如：
Foolishly, I didn’t write the phone number down. 我真蠢，没有把电话号码记下来。
Not only did he speak more correctly, but he spoke more easily. 不仅他讲得更正确，也讲得更不费劲了。
The girl who took his call foolishly lost her note of the conversation. 为他接电话的那个女孩愚蠢地把电话记录给弄丢了。
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