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主谓一致,（一）谓语动词常用复数的情况,1）主语为复数名词或代词 The teachers are respected in the world.,2）the+adj. 表示一类人 或物做主语时 如 the+,poor,rich old, young等,The rich are not always happy. Generally speaking the young are eager for success.,3) the+姓的复数形式表一家人,The Whites are going to make a trip to London. The Greens were watching TV when a fire broke out.,（二）谓语动词常用单数的情况,1）可数名词的单数及不可数名词作主语时。,2）表示时间、距离、金钱、长度、重量等复数名词作 主语，表达一个整体概念时。 Twenty years is only a short time in human history.,3)主语从句、动词不定式、动名词 形式作主语时， 谓语动词用单数。,Looking after the children is my full time job. To die for the people is a worthy death. When and where to hold the meeting is unknown. Whatever was left was taken away.,4) 以-S 结尾的单数名词，形式为复数而意义为单数 如表示学科、国家、机构、书籍、报刊等名称作主语, (news, physics, maths，politics)谓语用单数。,The United states is made up of 50 states. The Times is a newspaper for the British government Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens in 1860.,5) clothing, furniture, traffic, jewellery, baggage, equipment, luggage 等无生命的集合名词作主语。 Clothing is badly needed in this flooded area.,each neither either,+of + the+复数名词或代词,Each of us has a dictionary. Either of the books on the table belongs to me. Neither of them is fit for the job.,7) many a / each / every either / neither more than one,+单数名词,Many a student has seen the film. Neither story is true.,当each放在主语后作同位语时，不决定谓语单复数 They each have a dictionary.=Each of them has a dictionary.,More than one student has seen the film. More students than one have seen the film.,8) every each no many a,+名词单数and+,every each no many a,+名词单数 作主语时 谓语用单数,Every desk and every chair is made of wood. Many a boy and girl has made the same mistake.,9）由some, any, no, every + one/thing/body 所构成的复合代词做主语时，谓语用单数 Nobody wants to go there. Something has been done to end the strike.,10）man(人类) 和the world(世人)作主语时 Man has created many useful things. The world knows that the earth is round.,（三）其它情况,1）用and或bothand连接的两个名词作主语时，谓语动词 用复数形式。但是如果and连接的两个名词作主语，指同一个 人或事或整体概念，谓语动词用单数（如果是可数名 词的单数这时and后面的名词一般没有冠词）。,用is/are填空 English and Chinese quite different languages. Water and air both important. .,are,are,Early to bed and early to rise （早睡早起） a good habit.,is,2) 表示成双成套的名词，如：chopsticks (筷子), compasses, clothes, glasses, jeans, scissors, shoes, socks, trousers, gloves, shorts等，作主语时， 谓语动词通常用复数形式；但如与a kind of, a pair of, the pair of, a series of 连用，作主语时， 谓语动词用单数形式。如：,This kind of books is useful. = Books of this kind are useful.,3) 某些集体名词（如 family, team 等）作主语时， 如果作为一个整体看待，谓语用单数形式；如果就其中一个个成员而言，谓语动词用复数。类似动词还有： class, club, company, crowd, enemy, government, group, party, public, team等。,1)His family _(be) a big family,2)His family _(be) listening to music when he came back,3)The population in China_(be) very large, and eighty of the population in China _(be) farmers.,is,were,is,are,5) 就近原则 下列连词连接两个主语时，及there be句型有多个并列主语， 谓语应与最靠近的主语保持一致。,A or B either A or B neither A nor B not only A but also B there be A, B and C not A but B,动词与靠近的主语一致,1）Either the girl or the boy _ in Canada.( is /are ),is,2）Neither he nor I _ the answer.(knows /know),know,3）Not only I but also Jane and Mary _tired of having one examination after another.,are,5）You or he _ to blame你或他有一人要受责备。 _ you or he to blame? 受责备的是你还是他？ Ais，Is Bare，Are Cis，Are D are，Is,6)_either he or you right?(be)(注意就近原则在疑问中的使用),Is,4) You ,he or I right.,am,7)Either you or the headmaster _ the prize to those gifted students at the meeting. (NMET 1994 ) A. is handing out B. are to hand out C. are handing out D. is to hand out,D,6)就前原则,当主语后面跟有 as well as, as much as,no less than, along with, with, like, rather than, together with, but, except, besides,including, in addition to 等词组时，其谓语动词的单复数按主语的单复数而定。,2）Nobody but John and Helen absent. I, rather than you， responsible for the accident.,was,am,1)The teacher , with 6 girls and 8 boys of her class, _ visiting a museum when the earthquake struck. (NMET2004 北京卷) A. was B . were C. had been D. would be,A,7) None of + n（复数）作主语，谓语用单数或复数均可 None of + n（单数）作主语，谓语用单数,None of the cars was / were damaged. 这些车都没有受损。 None of the food has gone bad. 食物没有变质。,8) a number of + n（复数）作主语，谓语用复数 the number of + n（复数）作主语，谓语用单数 The number of the people invited _ fifty , but a number of them _ absent for different reasons. (NMET 1996 ) A. were, was B. was; was C. was; were D. were; were,a large quantity of +c/u +谓语单数 large quantities of +c/u +谓语复数 A large quantity of people is needed here. Large quantities of food have rotten away.,C,9）关系代词作主语，定语从句谓语动词的形式取决于其先行词的单复数。 He is one of the few persons wh