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12主谓一致
一、语法一致
语法一致:就是谓语动词和主语在单、复数形式上保持一致。
1. 单数n.,不可数n., 不定式,动名词或从句作主语时,谓语动词用单数。主语为复数时,谓语动词用复数。
☛His father is working on the farm.
☛ Time is money.
☛ To finish all the work on time is impossible.
☛Reading in the sun is bad for your eyes.
☛The children are in the classroom 2 hours ago.
◆由what引导的主语从句,后面的谓语动词多用单数但如果表语是复数或what从句是一个带有复数意义的
并列结构时,谓语动词用复数。
☛What I bought were 3 English books.
☛What I say and do are helpful to you.
2. 由and 或both...and 连接起来的合成主语后面谓语动词用复数。
☛Lucy and Lily are twins.
☛She and I are friends.
☛Both she and he are Young Pioneers.
◆如果and所连接的两个词是指同一个人或物时,它后面的谓语动词就用单数。
☛The writer and artist has come.
◆由and 连接的并列单数主语前分别有each, every, no more than a(an), many a(an)修饰时,谓语动词用单数。
☛Every student and every teacher was in the room.
☛No boy and no girl likes it.
3. 主语后面有with, together with, except, but, like, as well as, rather than, more than, no less than, besides,
including等引起的短语时,谓语动词的单复数由主语的单复数决定。
☛Mr Green, together with his wife and children, has come to China.
☛Nobody but Jim and Mike was on the playground.
☛She, like you and Tom, is very tall.
4. either, neither, each, every或no+单数neither/neither/none of +复数名词,还有some, any, no, every 构成的复合不定代词作主语,谓语动词用单数。
☛Each of us has a new book.
☛Everything around us is matter.
☛Neither of the texts is interesting.
None of us has been to South Africa.
5. 定语从句中,关系代词that, which, who 作主语时,谓语动词的数和先行词一致。
☛He is one of my students who are working hard.
☛He is the only one of my friends who is working hard.
6. 集体名词family, class, crowd, committee, population, audience等,指整体时,用单数;指集体的成员时,用复数。
☛His family is a happy one.
☛The whole family are watching TV.
☛The population of China is 1400 million.(人口)
☛One third of the population here are workers.(人)
◆people, cattle, police作主语时,谓语动词用复数。
7. 由a lot of, lots of, plenty of, the rest of, the majority of +名词,或者是分数/百分数+名词构成的短语作主
语,谓语动词的数由名词的单复数决定。
☛The rest of the lecture is wonderful.
☛A lot of time is wasted.
☛A