主谓一致用法归纳一、名词作主语

主谓一致用法归纳

一、名词作主语

◇family, class, group, team等集体名词作主语

1.若指一个整体时，谓语动词用单数形式。His family is a happy one. His family isn’t large.

2.若指其中一个个具体成员时，谓语动词复数形式。My family all like watching TV.

◇people, police, cattle等集体名词作主语，谓语动词用复数形式。

The police are searching for the thief. People here are very friendly.

◇“the+姓氏复数”表示一对夫妇或一家人时，谓语一般用复数。The Smiths are having dinner.

◇“the+形容词”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。

1.表示一类人时，谓语动词用复数形式。The poor are very happy, but the rich are sad.

2.表示抽象概念时，用单数形式。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。

No news is good news. Maths (physics) is very popular in our class

◇more than one+单数名词作主语，谓语用单数。

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。Three years has passed since then. Two months is a long holiday. Twenty pounds isn’t so heavy.

Ten miles isn’t a long distance. 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；

A number of famous people were invited to party. A number of students have gone home.

2.the number of +复数名词作主语，谓语动词用单数。

The number of the students is over eight hundred. 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。To see is to believe Doing eye exercises is good for your eyes.

◇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。

One of my favorite sports is basketball.Each of them has an English dictionary.

◇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。

This pair of shoes is Tom’s. There are two glasses of water on the table.

◇“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可数性, 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。

1.若是不可数名词，用单数；Lots of damage was caused by fire. About three-fourths of the earth’s surface is covered with water.

2.若名词是复数，则用复数。Three-fifths of the workers here are women. Most of his time is spent on study.

二、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。Is everyone here today? 今天大家到齐了吗？Something is wrong with him.他有毛病。◇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?

三、并列结构作主语

◇由both…and…连接两个单数名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式；Both his father and his mother are both teachers.◇由and连接的两个名词作主语时

1.一般用复数形式。Walking and riding are good exercises.

2. 若and所连接的并列主语是同一个人,谓语动词用单数，and后面的名词不加冠词。