内容正文:
Grammar
Subject-Verb Agreement
主 谓 一 致
Learning Aims:
1. To summarize and review the Subject-Verb Agreement.
2. To master the usage of agreement.
Subject-Verb Agreement
主谓一致 (Period 1)
一、含义
主谓一致是指谓语动词与主语必须在人称、
数上保持一致。
I have a car, but he has two.
We were farmers 10 years ago, but he was a worker.
主谓一致四大原则
语法一致原则
意义一致原则
就近一致原则
就前一致原则
一、语法一致原则
主语是复数,谓语要用复数形式,如are, were, have等。
主语是单数,谓语要用单数形式,如:is, was, has, works等。
We work in the same company.
Two students are waiting for you in your office.
A book is lying on my desk.
She often does her homework in the morning.
We were farmers 10 years ago, but he was a worker.
二、意义一致原则
主谓语一致不是根据其外部语法形态来决定,而是取决于主语所表达的内在含义。
The crowd were fighting for their lives.
这些人正为生存而战斗。
Three years in a strange land seems like a long time.
在异乡生活的三年,仿佛是很长的时间。
意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
用复数谓语动词
单复数视情况定
二、意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
1. and连接的两个并列成分指的是同一概念,兼具
身份或匹配出现
Bread and butter is a daily food in the West.
The professor and writer is speaking at the meeting.
The professor and the writer are speaking at the meeting.
常见的由and连接的指一个概念的有:
the needle and thread salt and water
the folk and knife iron and steel
time and tide
针 线
盐 水
刀 叉
钢 铁
岁月
二、意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
no
every
many a
more than one
单数名词+单数动词
No sound and no voice is heard.
Each doctor and each nurse was given a new shirt.
Many a student and teacher likes football.
More than one student knows the answer.
Many a man has died in the war.
2. each + 单数名词 + and + (each) + 单数名词 + 单数动词
二、意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
3. one/every one/each/either/the number of + 复数名词
+单数动词
Each of the girls likes dancing.
One of them has been abroad.
The number of traffic accidents has increased.
A number of children like this song.
二、意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
4. 由every-, some-, no-, any-和-one, -thing, -body等构成的不定代词作主语,用单数动词。
Everyone in the class was surprised at the news.
Nobody knows where she lives.
二、意义一致原则
用单数谓语动词
5. 动词-ing形式,动词不定式和名词性从句作主语
Making speeches is not her strong point.
Growing flower