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Section Ⅳ Using language
主谓一致(1)
语法串烧
我的发现
The police are① searching for a thief in the town. All means have② been tried, but they still failed to keep track of him. The only clue is that the furniture in the room was③ moved. According to the fingerprint left on the furniture,he was found. At last the thief was sent into prison.
①中police为集合名词,其谓语动词通常用复数形式。
②means单复数同形,谓语动词据其表达的意义而定。
③furniture为不可数名词,其作主语时谓语动词用单数形式。
主谓一致是指句子的谓语动词和其主语在人称和数上必须保持一致。本单元侧重讲解集体名词作主语时的主谓一致问题。
一、集体名词的概念
集体名词表示由个体组成的集体,指一群人或某一事物的总称。
二、集体名词作主语时的用法
1.个体集体名词表示复数含义,作主语时谓语动词通常用复数形式,如:police,people,cattle, mankind, clothes, trousers等。
The police are searching for a tall dark man with a beard.
警察正在搜寻一个留着胡子、皮肤黝黑的高个子男人。
2.有的集体名词通常只用作不可数名词,表示单数意义,用作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式,如:clothing, poetry, luggage, furniture, machinery, scenery, jewellery, equipment等。
The furniture in the room has been made to order.
这个房间的家具是定做的。
Most of their equipment has been shipped ahead of schedule.
他们的大部分设备已提前运走了。
3.团体集体名词作主语时,谓语动词可用单数形式,也可用复数形式。若视为整体,谓语动词用单数形式;若强调其中的各个成员时,谓语动词用复数形式,如:family, team, class, crowd, government, club, committee, public等。
As far as I know,his family is a big one.(强调整体)
据我所知,他家是一个大家庭。
When I visited them yesterday,the family were having dinner.(强调成员)
昨天当我拜访他们时,他们一家人正在吃饭。
His luggage is very heavy,and he needs someone to help him.
他的行李很重,需要有人帮他一下。
4.单复数同形的名词有means,sheep,deer, fish, species,series等,据其表达的单复数的意义而定。
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All possible means have been tried,but none of which is perfect.
所有可能的方法都试了,但是没有一个是完美的。
Every possible means has been tried and the result is very good.
每一个可能的方法都试了而且结果非常好。
[巧学活用]——用所给动词的适当形式填空
①The football team is(be) made up of 23 members.
②The class are(be) reading English novels.
③There are(be) various means of communicating with a stranger.
④People have shown(show) great love to the victims since the disaster happened.
⑤The audience was (be) so large that no seat was left unoccupied in the hall.
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