什么时候谓语用复数 什么时候谓语动词用复数( 二 )


All of my classmates like music.
All of the water is gone.
12)在主谓倒装的句子中,谓语动词的数应与其后的主语一致 。如:
Between the two windows hangs a picture.
2.由连接词连接的名词作主语
1) 用and或both…and连接并列主语,谓语动词通常用复数形式 。如:
Plastics and rubber never rot.
Walking and riding are good exercises.
但是,并列主语如果指的是同一个人、同一事物或同一概念时,谓语动词用单数形式,这时and后面的名词没有冠词 。如:
Truth and honesty is the best policy.
The girl’s teacher and friend is a young doctor.
To love and to be loved is great happiness.
Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit.
A knife and fork is on the table.
2)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等引导的词组时,其谓语动词的单、复数而定 。如:
The teacher as well as the students was reading in the library.
3)以or, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also等连接的名词(代词)作主语时,谓语动词的单复数应根据就近一致的原则 。如:
Tom or his brothers are waiting in the room.
Either you or he is to go.
3.代词作主语
1)名词性物主代词作主语时,既可以用作单数,也可以用作复数,这取决于它所代替的是单数还是复数 。如:
Ours (Our Party) is a great party.
Your shoes are black, and mine(=my shoes) are brown.
2)such, the same起指示代词作用时,应根据其所指的内容来决定单、复数 。如:
Such is our plan. Such are his words.
3)关系代词who, that, which等在定语从句中作主语时,其谓语动词的数应与句中先行词的数一致 。如:
Those who want to go please put up your hands.
Some of the energy that is used by man comes from the sun.
4)疑问代词who, what, which作主语时,谓语动词可根据说话人所要表达的意思决定单、复数 。如:
Who lives next door ? It is Xiao Liu.
Who live next door ? It is Zhang and Liu.
What produce(s) heat ?
5)不定代词any, either, neither, none, all some, more等作主语时,有以下两种情况:
单独作主语时,视其在文中的意义,动词用单数或复数形式,例如:
Now all has been changed. All are present.
either, neither单独作主语时,谓语通常用单数 。
但后接of时,若of的宾语为不可数名词,动词当然用单数形式,若of的宾语为复数名词或代词时,动词可以是单数,也可以是复数,在正式文体中,单数形式的动词更常用 。如:
Do(es) any of you know his address ?
None of them has(have)seen the film.
4.分数、量词作主语
1)“分数或百分数+名词”构成的短语以及由“a lot of, lots of plenty of, a large quantity of, a heap of, heaps of, half of +名词”构成的短语作主语时,其谓语动词要与短语中of后面的名词的数保持一致,这是因为短语中后面的名词是中心词,而短语中前面的量词是修饰语,例如:
Lots of damage was caused by fire.
About three-fourths of the earth’s surface is covered with water. Three-fifths of the workers here are women.
和这种情况类似的还有“a number of+名词复数”,但是,“the number of +名词”的中心词却是number, 试比较:A number of students have gone home.
The number of pages in this book is two hundred. 注意:(large)quantities of修饰可数或不可数名词,其短语作主语时,谓语动词一般用复数,例如:
Quantities of food(nuts) were on the table.
短语in quantity, in large quantities意为“大量”;in small quantities意为“少量” 。
2)a great deal of , a large amount of修饰不可数名词,其短语作主语时,谓语动词通常用单数;large amounts of修饰不可数名词,其短语作主语时,谓语动词通常用复数,例如:
A large amount of(A great deal of)damage was done in a very short time.
Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.
3)表示数量的one and a half后,名词要用复数形式,但是其短语作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式,例如:One and a half bananas is left on the table.
4)half of, (a) part of修饰可数名词单数及不可数名词时,谓语动词用单数,修饰可数名词复数时,谓语动词用复数 。
5.名词化的形容词作主语
如果主语由“the+形容词(或过去分词)”结构担任时,谓语通常用复数,这类词有:the brave, the poor, the rich, the blind, the young, the old, the sick, the dead, the deaf and dumb, the oppressed, the injured, the wounded, the unemployed等;但也有少数的过去分词与定冠词连用时指个别,则用单数 。如: