“单数还是复数”——主谓一致用法归纳
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“单数还是复数？”——主谓一致用法归纳
名词作主语
◇family,
class, group, team
等集体名词作主语，
若
指一个整
体时，谓语动词用单数形式，
若指其中一个个具体成员时，谓语动词复数形式。
His family is a happy one.
His family isn’t large.
他家的人不多。
My family all like watching TV.
我们一家人都喜欢看电视。
◇people, police,
cattle
等集体名词作主语，谓语动词用复数
形式，
The police are waiting for
the boy.
The police are searching for
the thief.
People here are very
friendly.
这儿的人很友好。
◇“the+姓氏复数”表示一家人时，谓语一般用复数。
The Smiths are
having dinner.
◇“the+形容词”表示
一类人时，
谓语动词用复数形式，
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
injured,the wounded,
the unemployed
等。表示抽象概念时，用单数形式。例如：
The poor are very happy, but the rich
are sad.
穷人很快
乐，富人却过得不快乐。
The beautiful lives
forever.
美是永存的。
◇以
-s
结尾的名词本身不表示复数意义，谓语通常用单数形
式，如
news, maths,
physics
等，例如：
No news is good news.
没有消息就是好消息。
Maths is very popular in our class
在我们班数学很受欢迎。
◇more than
one+单数名词作主语，谓语用单数。例如：
More than one student has ever been to
Beijing.
不止一
个学生曾经去过北京。
◇表示时间，价格，重量，数目，
长度，数学运算等的词或
短语作主语时，这些通常作一个整体概
念，谓语用单数形式。例如：
Three years has passed since then.
Two months is a long holiday.
两个月是一个长假。
Twenty pounds isn’t so
heavy.
20
英镑并不太重。
Ten miles isn’t a long
distance.
1
0
英里并不是一段很长
的距离。
Five minus four is one.
5
减
4
等于
1
。
◇a number
of+复数名词作主语，谓语动词用复数；
the
number of
+
复数名词作主语，谓语动词用
单数。例如：
A number of famous people were invited
to party.
许多名
人都被邀请参加这个聚会。
The number of the students
is over eight hundred.
我们学<
/p>
校的学生数超过
800
人。
A number of students
have gone home.
The number of pages in
this book is two hundred.
◇
动词不定式，动名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。例
如：
To see is to believe
眼见为实。
Doing eye exercises is good
for your eyes.
做眼睛保健操
对你的眼睛十分有益。
◇主语为
one of , each of, every
one of, any one of
加复数名
词或代词，谓
语用单数。如：
One of my favorite
sports is basketball.
Each of them has
an English dictionary.
他们每人都有一
本英语词典。
◇当
kind of, pair of, glass of
等表示确定数量的名词短语修
饰主语时，谓语与
kind, pair, glass
等一致。例如：
This pair of shoes is Tom’s.
这双鞋是汤姆的。
There are two glasses of water on the
table.
桌上有两杯
水。
A pair of shoes was on the
desk.
◇“lots of/ a lot
of/plenty of/ all/ most/ half / the rest of +名词”
或“分数
/
百分数
+
名词”作主语时，
谓语动词取决于
名词的数；若是不可数名词，用单数；若名
词是复数，则用复数。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。
Lots of damage was caused by fire.
About three-
fourths of the
earth’s surface is cover
ed with
water.
Three-fifths of the
workers here are women.
Most of his
time is spent on study.
代词作主语
◇none
与可数名词连用，谓语动词可用单数也可用复数，
none
如果代表不可数名词时谓语动
词用单数。
None of the
land has become desert.
这些土地都没有变成
沙漠。
◇不定代词
somebody, someone,
something, anybody,
anything,
everybody, everyone, everything,
nobody, no one,
nothing
作主语，谓语动词用单数，例如：
Is everyone here today?
今天大家到齐了吗？
Something is wrong with him.
他有毛病。
Nobody was in.
没有人在家。
◇疑问代词
who, what,
which
作主语时，如果说话人不知道
具体的内容，谓语动词
一般用单数。
Who lives next door?
What’s in the
bag?
并列结构作主语
< br>◇由
both…and…连接两个单数名词作主语时，谓语动词用
复数形式；