技巧9 判断词性是否误用
分析句子结构可以判断词性是否有错。词性误用中，形容词和副词的谩用是考查得最多的。
真题例证1
between playmates to be more than five years. It therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over(7)____
分析：此句意为“若某个游乐场上的儿歌一直流行上百年”，表示“流行”应用形容词current。此处用形容词current作to have been的表语。
真题例证2
The marketing of wheat became an increasing favorite topic of conversation.(2)____
分析：形容诃favorite应由副词increasingly修饰，以表示“越来越受欢迎的”。故需把形容词increasing改成副词increasingly。
真题例证3
the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a higher rate and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)____
分析：从词性和词义来看，本题应使用形容词修饰counterparts，故需把Europe改成European。