6. the 与某些形容词搭配表示一类人时,如:the dead, the blind, the old, the rich, the wounded 等,谓语用复数形式。例如:
The old are taken good care of.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in some countries.
但是 the 与某些抽象名词或形容词搭配表示抽象概念时,如:the gold, the difficulty, the unknown, the love, the beautiful, the impossible, the unusual,谓语动词要用单数形式。例如:
The love lives forever.
The unusual is what he likes.
7. 以 -s, -es, -ics 结尾表示学科、疾病、游戏等名词以及 means, works (工厂),news 等作主语时,谓语动词要用单数。例如:
Mathematics is difficult to study.
Diabetes (糖尿病) is a very serious disease.
8. 关系代词 who, that, which 引导的定语从句,谓语动词的单复数形式应与先行词的数保持一致。例如:
I, who am your new teacher, will teach you chemistry.
Is this the book that was bought yesterday? (比较:Are these the books that were bought yesterday? )
9. 疑问代词 what, which, who 作主语,谓语动词的单复数形式应依据说话人的意图而定。例如:
Which has been chosen? (比较:Which have been chosen? )
Who lives in the room? (比较:Who live in the room? )
10. “ a (the, this, that) kind / sort / type of +名词”作主语,谓语用单数形式。但若是“ these (those, all, many, some) kinds (有时用 kind ) of +名词”作主语,谓语应用复数形式。例如:
This kind of book is sold in that shop.
Many kinds of shoes are sold in that shop.
注意:“名词+ of + a (the, this, that, these, those, all, some, many 等)+ kind (s)”结构作主语,谓语动词的单复数形式则与名词的数一致。例如:
Book of this kind is sold in that shop.
Apples of these kinds are sour.
11.“ a + 单数名词 +and a half ”和“one and a half+ 复数名词”作主语,谓语用单数形式。例如:
One and a half pears has been left on the table.
三、就近一致原则:这一原则是指如果句子中有两个或两个以上的主语时,谓语动词的单复数形式要根据靠近它的主语的单复数来确定。主要有以下两种情况:
1. or, either … or …, neither … nor …, not only … but also …, not … but …等连接并列主语时。例如:
Not his parents but he doesn't want to go.
Neither you nor I am a stranger here.
但是在疑问句中,谓语动词的单复数形式则应根据两个并列名词中的前一个名词的单数来确定。例如:
Do his parents or he want to go?
Does neither he nor his classmates know the secret?
2. There be +多个名词作主语,谓语动词常与最靠近 be 的名词的单复数一致。例如:
There is an apple, two pears and some oranges on the plate.
There are three students, two strangers and our headmaster talking together.
常见的结构有:share (in)sth. (分享、分担),share (in)sth. with sb. (和某人分享、分担)。share 后可跟表示具体概念的名词,也可跟表示抽象概念的名词,如 hope, interest, belief, faith 等。例如:
Let Harry play with your toys as well, Clare. You must learn to share.