2012成三英语考试:主谓一致用法指导(2)

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  如: The trousers are in the drawer. 裤子在抽屉里。

  There is a pair of shoes under the bed. 有一双鞋在床下。

  The pair of shoes is rather expensive. 这双袜子很贵。

  5. 由连接词连接的名词作主语.

  1)、用and或both…and连接并列主语,表示不同概念,谓语动词常用复数。

  如:You and he both stand up. 你和他都站了起来。

  Water and air are both important. 和空气都很重要。

  Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月不待人。

  但并列结构充当主语表示整体概念时,即指的是同一人,同一事物或同一概念,谓语动词用单数形式,这时and后面的名词没有冠词。

  英语中并列结构表示整体概念的有:

  2)表示兼职或有多个称呼的人。

  如:the worker and poet  这位工人兼诗人

  The writer and teacher is speaking at the meeting. 这位教师兼作家正在会上发言。

  6、当主语后面跟有as well as, along with, with, like, rather than, together

  with,等引导的词组时,其谓语动词的单、复数按主语的单、复数而定。

  如:Your father as well as you is very kind to me. 不仅你而且你的父亲对我都非常好。

  He, like you and Xiao Li, is very clever. 他象你和小李一样非常聪明。

  Mr Robbins, together with his wife and children, is leaving London

  for Paris. Robbins先生明天将和妻子和孩子离开伦敦去巴黎。

  D. 分数、量词作主语 .

  1、“分数或百分数+of+名词”构成的短语及由“a lot of, lots of, plenty of, half of, a

  heap of, heaps of +名词”构成的短语作主语时,谓语动词的数与短语中of后面的名词的数保持一致。如:More than

  70 percent of the surface of ouor planet is covered by

  water. 我们星球的表面百分之七十多都被水覆盖着。

  One third of the students are girls in our group. 我们队三分之一的学生是女生。

  2、a great deal of/ a large amount of修饰不可数名词,其短语作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式,如:

  A great deal of rice was taken from the country to the city by

  railway. 很多大米通过铁路从乡下运往城市。

  3、a number of+复数名词作主语,谓语动词用复数:the number of+复数名词作主语,谓语动词用单数。如:

  A number of students are going for a picnic this weekend.

  这个周末许多学生将去野炊。

  The number of days in February this year is 28.

  今年二月份的天数是二十八天。

  E. 名词化的形容词作主语

  “the+形容词(或过去分词或现在分词)”

  如:the brave, the poor, the rich, the blind, the young, the old, the

  sick, the wounded, the injured, the unemployed, the dying, the

  living 等结构担任主语表示一类人时,谓语动词常用复数形式,如:

  The young are more active than the old. 青年人比老年人积极。

  F. 动名词、不定式短语和从句作主语,谓语动词用单数形式。如:

  To learn a foreign language is not so difficult as you think.

  学一门外语并不象你想象的那么难。

  Smoking is bad for health. 吸烟有害健康。

  That he has won the game is known to us all. 他赢了这场比赛是我们众所周知的事。

  但what引导的主语从句所指的具体内容是复数意义时,谓语动词一般用复数形式。如:

  What we need is more time. 我们需要的是更多的时间。

  What we need are good teachers. 我们需要的是好老师。

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