为什么不用反身代词 - 柯帕斯英语网

She is listening to peaceful music to help her concentrate on her study.

请问句子里的to help her为什么不用herself？如果把目的状语放开头，To help her concentrate on her study，she is listening to peaceful music.这样也正确吗？不应该用反身代词？

宾语区用人称代词还是反身代词的问题一般情况下是容易判断的。但有时情况很复杂，有可能两种形式都能用，意思可能相同也可能不同，这跟文体和动词句式等因素有关。

如果把问题限制在你给出的这个句子上，那就相对简单些。to help...这个不定式分句本身没有显性的主语，因此句子的主语（反身代词的先行词）被默认为不定式分句的主语，这时help后应该用反身代词herself。这是一般语法规则。

仍以to help分句为例：

Later he sold silk stockings to help himself through the University of Pennsylvania.

Speakers assign these statuses to components of messages to help themselves produce texts and to help their listeners interpret them.

但在非正式文体中，像上述例句中那样紧跟在动词后的直接宾语也可能用人称代词。下列各句源于英语文学原著：

Sabrina said. " I'm going to have a shower to relax me. "

Alone, they kissed, he tasting on her tongue the Scotch she had had to relax her.

If Dr. Von Hallor has to doodle to help him think... that's his business.

这些句子中的人称代词，按语法规则都应改成反身代词。但实际上在文学作品和其它非正式文体中，用人称代词替代反身代词的现象并不罕见，尤其当反身代词远离其先行词时，因为此时先行词对代词的影响力已被削弱。

鉴此，你的原句中用her也是可以的，用herself则更规范。

如果把不定式to help...置于句首，情况同样如此：用反身代词更正规，用人称代词也完全可以。例如：

To help me get to sleep, I tried thinking about waves breaking on the shore.

To help himself cope, he turned his ordeal into an MTV comedy special that will air May 23.

至于充当间接宾语和介词宾语的反身代词，则有更大可能被人称代词取代，但问题也比较复杂，这里就不谈了。

以上内容仅供参考。

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