1．A friendly waiter taught me a few words of Italian.

雖然friendly是以-ly結尾，在拼法上與許多副詞一樣，但它卻是形容詞：He always greets me in a friendly way.

She gave me a friendly greeting.

He is not very friendly to John.

類似的形容詞有： brotherly, fatherly, manly, lovely, motherly 等。

a few可與復數可數名詞連用，表示肯定，含有some, a small number of的意思：The police would like to ask him a few questions.

Mother is coming in a few days.

2．Then he lent me a book.

像send, buy, give等動詞一樣，lend可以有兩個賓語：一個直接賓語，一個間接賓語。在這句話中，lend的直接賓語為a book，間接賓語為me。

Would you lend me your pen?

Yesterday I lent my dictionary to Mary.

3．…but I did not understand a word… 

not…a的否定意義比單用not要強。課文的最后一句加了single，語氣更強。

4．Every day I thought about postcards.

think about可以指某一段時間一直在想／考慮某事：

I often think about the lovely holiday we had last year.

What are you thinking about?

I'm thinking about my friends.

5．make a big decision

這是個常用的詞語搭配，可以靈活使用：

It was not easy for me to make/ take this decision.

You have made/taken a wrong decision.

Have you made/taken a decision?

6．I spent the whole day in my room…

spend與表示時間的詞／短語連用時，意思為“花”、“度過”：We're going to spend three days in the country.

spend還可以表示“花錢”：

If we spend all the money, we'll be poor again.

I can't spend any more on this car.

whole， “整整的”、“整個的”：a whole year a whole bottle of milk two whole weeks

1．一般過去時 與一般現在時

上一課的語法提到一般現在時可以表示習慣性或經常性的動作。在用一般現在時詢問有關習慣的問題時可用ever。

一般過去時通常表示過去發生的而現在已經結束的事件、動作或情況。它通常指動作何時發生，而不指動作持續多久。因此，過去時與表明事情何時發生的狀語連用是非常重要的。

像last summer, last winter, last week, last night等這類狀語只能與過去時連用，不能與現在時連用，因為它們確指過去的時間。

2．直接賓語 與間接賓語

許多及物動詞后可以有兩個賓語，直接賓語通常是動作所涉及的事物，間接賓語表示動作是對誰做的或為誰做的，通常是人。

這類動詞有give, show, send, bring, lend, tell, return, write, pay, teach, make, buy, find等。通常間接賓語在前，緊跟動詞；不過，如想要強調直接賓語，也可將它置于動詞之后、間接賓語之前。這時，間接賓語之前則必須用介詞to或for：

I want to buy my father a hat./I want to buy a hat for my father.