英国感叹号新规遭吐槽
Nonsense! Backlash over new school rules on exclamation marks
Primary school pupils will only get credit for using exclamation marks in sentences beginning with 'what' or 'how', under strict new Government rules.
根据英国政府的新规定,遇到以"What"和"How"开头的句子,小学生们必须在句尾使用"感叹号"才会得分.
Ministers have been accused of "taking writing back to the 19th century" after issuing the restrictive new guidance over what counts as an "exclamation".
这种严厉的感叹号新规出台后,相关部长们被批"把写作带回到19世纪".
"For the purposes of the English grammar, punctuation and spelling test, an exclamation is required to start with What or How," the guidance for Key Stage 1 and 2 national curriculum tests states.
小学生"关键阶段1和2"的全国课程测试指导文件写道："为了遵守英语语法、标点和拼写考试规则,以What和How开头的句子,必须用感叹号."
Children are expected to be able to recognise and write examples of exclamation sentences, and will not get any credit for using exclamation marks in other ways, examiners have been told.
考官们被告知,孩子们要能够识别并写出感叹句型,如果在其他句型中使用了感叹号将不得分.
The guidance suggests "What a lovely day!" or "How exciting!" as acceptable examples.
指导文件上举例说,"多么美好的一天！"或"太激动人心了！"是可以用感叹号的.
"A sentence that ends in an exclamation mark, but which does not have one of the grammatical patterns shown above, is not considered to be creditworthy as an exclamation (e.g. exclamatory statements, exclamatory imperatives, exclamatory interrogatives or interjections)," it says.
