1、1)某些集体名词,如family, team等作主语时,如果作为一个整体看待,谓语动词用单数形式,如果就其中一个个成员而言,谓语动词用复数形式。His family is a happy one. The whole family are watching TV. 这类名词有:audience(观众),class,club,company,crew(员工),enemy(敌人),crowd,government,group,party,public,team等。2)某些集体名词,如people, police, cattle(牛)等,只当复数看待,谓语动词必须用复数。The police are
2、 searching for the thief.The people hope to live a happy life 注意:有些表示类别总称的集合名词,如machinery(机械),clothing(衣服),luggage(行李),furniture(家具)equipment(设备),jewelry(珠宝)等作主语时,谓语动词常用单数。My luggage was sent by air.3)单、复数同形的名词主语时,谓语动词应根据意义决定单、复数。A sheep is over there. Some sheep are over there. 4)表示金钱,时间.距离.价格,度量衡或
3、书名等的复合名词作主语时,通常把这些名词看作一个整体,谓语一般用单数.(用复数也可,意思不变.) Three weeks was allowed for making the necessary preparations. Ten yuan is enough. Three years has passed since I graduated 5)代词each和由every, some, no, any等构成的复合代词作主语,或主语中含有each, every, 即:and连接的两个单数名词前若用each,every,no修饰,该名词短语作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式.例如: Each of u
4、s has a tape-recorder. No book and no pen is found in the schoolbag.书包里没有书和钢笔. Each boy and each girl wants to go to the cinema. (注意:each作主语的同位语时, 谓语动词由主语来决定,与each无关.) They each have a bike. 他们每人有一辆自行车.6)如果主语有more than one很多 非常或many a许多构成,尽管从意义上看是复数内容,但它的谓语动词仍用单数形式。1,more than one +名词作主语时,谓语动词常用单数.例
5、如: More than one teacher gets the flowers. 不止一个教师得到了花. More than one student has read the book. 但是,“more +复数名词+than one”结构之后,谓语动词一般多用复数形式。More members than one are against your plan. 2, many a +名词作主语时,从意义上看是复数,但谓语动词常用单数.例如: Many a student has been sent to plant trees. 很多学生被派去植树. Many a girl has been
6、 there.3,all指人时,动词用复数;all指物时,动词用单数.例如:All are present and all is going well. 所有人全部到场了,一切进展顺利7)一些有两个部分构成的名词表示衣物或工具作主语时,谓语动词通常用复数形式,例如:glasses, clothes, trousers, shoes, compasses(圆规), chopsticks(筷子), scissors(剪刀)等。但如果主语用“a kind of, a pair of , a series of等加名词”构成时,谓语动词一般用单数形式。His tousers are too long.
7、A pair of shoes was on the desk. 8)this kind of book =a book of this kind(这种书),其谓语动词用单数;短语this kind of men =men of this kind =these kind of men(口语)(这一类人),以及与kind相似的type,sort,part,piece等构成的类似短语作主语时,谓语动词与of 前的名词保持一致。This kind of men is dangerous.Men of this kind are dangerous.This kind of apples is ex
8、pensive.Apples of this kind are very expensive.10)表示“国家的,民族的”,这类形容词与the 连用,表示整个民族时,谓语动词用复数形式。常见有the Chinese,the Japanese,the English,the British,the 等。 The Chinese are hard-working.11)主语形式为复数,而意义上却是单数,谓语动词用单数。The news was so surprising. 形复意单的单词有news和一些以ics结尾的学科名称,如physics(物理),politics(政治), economics
9、(经济),mathematics(数学)等作主语时,谓语动词用单数.Politics is now taught in all schools. 现在各学校都开设政治课.Mathematics is his favorite subject.2由连接词连接的名词作主语1)用and或bothand连接并列主语,谓语动词通常用复数形式。注意: 当主语由and连结时,如果它表示一个单一的概念,即指同一人或同一物时,谓语动词用单数,and 此时连接的两个词前只有一个冠词.Walking and riding are good exercises.The writer and teacher is co
10、ming. 那位作家兼教师来了。(作家和教师指同一个人) The writer and the teacher are coming. 作家和老师来了。(作家和老师是两个人) 2)当主语后面跟有as well as, as much as, no less than(不少于), along with, with, like, rather than(而不是), together with, but, except, besides, including, in addition to(除此之外)等引导的词组时,其谓语动词的单、复数由引导词前面的主语而定。The teacher as well
11、as his students was reading in the library .The teacher together with some students is visiting the factory. He as well as I wants to go boating.)以or, eitheror, neithernor, not onlybut also等连接的名词(代词)作主语时,谓语动词的单复数应根据就近一致的原则。Tom or his brothers are waiting in the room.Either you or he is to go.Not onl
12、y John but also I am going to Shanghai next week.4).由 each, either, neither, another, the other 作主语,谓语动词用单数Each of them has an English dictionary. 他们每人都有一本英语词典。Neither answer is correct. 两个答案都不正确。Each of us has his likes and dislikes.Neither of the books is very interesting.当there be 句型的主语是一系列事物时,谓语
13、应与最邻近的主语保持一致.There is a pen, a knife and several books on the desk.There are twenty boy-students and twenty-three girl-students in the class.3代词作主语1)关系代词who, that, which等在定语从句中作主语时,其谓语动词的数应与句中先行词的数一致。Those who want to go please put up your hands. Some of the energy that is used by man comes from the
14、 sun. 2)疑问代词who, what, which作主语时,谓语动词可根据说话人所要表达的意思决定单、复数。Who lives next door ? It is Xiao Liu. Who live next door ? It is Zhang and Liu. 3)不定代词somebody, someone, something, anybody, anything, everybody, everyone, everything, nobody, no one, nothing作主语,谓语动词用单数。Is everyone here today. 今天大家到齐了吗?Somethi
15、ng is wrong with him. 他有毛病。Nobody was in. 没有人在家。4分数、量词作主语1)“分数或百分数+名词”构成的短语以及由“ the rest of, most of, all of,a lot of, lots of plenty of, a large quantity of, a heap of, heaps of(大量,许多), half of +名词”构成的短语作主语时,其谓语动词要与短语中of后面的名词的数保持一致,这是因为短语中后面的名词是中心词,而短语中前面的量词是修饰语Three fourths of the surface of the earth is covered with water.地球表面四分之三为水所覆盖.All of my classmates like music.All of the money
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