【问】 Thank you for your invitation of paying you a visit in Spring.
感谢您邀请我春天去访问您。
这个句子对吗?
【答】 这个句子是错误的。因为名词invitation,如同decision,determination,willingness,res-olution一样,只能接动词不定式,而不能接of+动名词。请看下面的实例:
1. I had an invitation to go and talk to the cadets. (EED)
我应邀去和军校学员谈话。
2. Philip refused his uncle's invitation to go down to Blacktable. (Maugham)
菲利普拒绝了他叔叔请他去布莱克退布尔的邀请。
赵振才 编著.英语常见问题解答大词典.哈尔滨:黑龙江人民出版社.1998.第612页.