语言是一个线性序列,词语按其横向组合搭配规律在句子中有其固定的或恰当的位置,这就是词语的序位。否定小品词not在句中的序位,有时与其修饰中心紧紧靠近,不难解读;有时与其修饰中心相隔甚远,则不便解读,常常出错。本文试图弄清这些缘由,希望能对英语教学有些帮助。 Language is a linear sequence. Words have their fixed or appropriate position in the sentence according to their horizontal combination and collocation rules. This is the order of words. It is not easy to interpret the order of the non-synthetic word not in the sentence, sometimes it is close to the center of its modification, and it is not difficult to interpret it. Sometimes it is far from the center of its modification, so it is inconvenient to interpret and often make mistakes. This article attempts to clarify these reasons and hopes to help English teaching.