職稱英語:分析句子好方法2

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(不可數(shù)名詞作主語)
    用“and,,和“both … and”連接的并列主語,謂語動詞多用復(fù)數(shù)形式,但并列主語如果指同一人同一事物或同一概念的時候,and后面的名詞沒有冠詞,謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式。如:
    Both the man and his wife want to go to the cinema.
    The poet and writer has come.
    Bread and butter is daily food in the West.
    主語是單數(shù)后面跟as well as,with,besides,along with,together with等,謂語動詞仍用單數(shù),如:
    The teacher as well as the students likes this novel.
    My sister,together with Jane and James,is gone.
    一些有復(fù)數(shù)的名詞,例如clothes.scissors,trousers,scales,spectacles等,作主語時,謂語動詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式,但如在成雙的東西的名詞前面有apairo{時,其謂語動詞用單數(shù)。如:
    My trousers are being mended。
    This pair of scissors belongs to me.
    有些詞尾有“s”的學(xué)科名稱,做主語時,謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式。如:
    Mathematics is taught here.
    ②語言內(nèi)容上的一致:主要指從意義上考慮主謂一致的問題。主語形式上為單數(shù),但意義上為復(fù)數(shù),謂語動詞要用復(fù)數(shù)形式;主語形式上是復(fù)數(shù),但意義上為單數(shù),謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式。
    One hundred tons of water were used last week.(強(qiáng)調(diào)數(shù)量)
    Ten minutes is enough.(強(qiáng)調(diào)整體)
    News is travelling fast nowadays.
    This glass works was built in 1985.
    有復(fù)數(shù)意義的名詞,如:police,militia,people,cattle等作主語時,謂語動詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式。如:
    The police are trying to catch the thief who has stolen a bike.
    Cattle feed on grass.
    有些集合名詞,如;family,group,crowd,class,audience,government,committee。說話人把它們所表示的人或事當(dāng)做整體看時,作單數(shù)看待,謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式;說話者把它們表示的人或事物當(dāng)做若干個體來看時,作復(fù)數(shù)看待,謂語動詞也用復(fù)數(shù)形式。如:
    My family is large.
    My family are anxious about his safety.
    ③就近一致:由并列連詞如:whether...or,not only...but also,either...or,neither...nor,or連接的并列主語,謂語動詞與其最近的主語保持一致。如:
    Either his friends or his brother is wrong.
    Either his brother or his friends are wrong.
    Not only you but also he is wrong.
    Not only he but also you are wrong.