英语中表语是:是一个语法
名词,指说明主语的身份、性质、品性、特征和状态的词或从句,表语常由名词、形容词、副词、
介词短语、动名词、
不定式、从句来充当,它常位于
系动词(be, become, appear, seem,look,sound,feel,get,smell等词)之后。如果句子的表语也是由一个句子充当的,那么这个充当表语的句子就叫做
表语从句。
例如:
I am fine. ( fine 是形容词,作表语)
He is a boy. ( boy 是名词,作表语)
Five plus two is seven. ( seven 是
数词,作表语)
We are here. ( here 是副词,作表语)
He is not at home. (at home 是介词短语,作表语)
My hobby is reading. ( reading 是动名词,作表语)
Our duty is to makeour environment better.(to make 是不定式,作表语)