英语必修4知识点

He had finally achieved success.
Even a small success gives you a sense of achievement.
2. condition
【课文原句】She helpedimprove prison conditions and gave prisoners work and education. (P1)
【名师点拨】condition意为“环境；境况；条件”时，是可数名词，常用复数形式conditions；意为“状态；状况”时，是不可数名词，be in goodcondition表示“处于良好的状态”，be out of condition表示“健康状况不佳”。如：
We should pay more attention to the poor living under the bad conditions.
9. care for
【课文原句】It was a small book explaining how tocut the death rate from having and caring for babies by following some rules for keeping babies clean and healthy. (P6)
The police are searching for the lost child.
二、不定代词作主语时的主谓一致。
不定代词anyone, anybody, anything, everyone,everybody, everything, someone, somebody, no one, nobody, nothing, each, theother等作主语时，谓语动词用单数。如：
The girl, to whom he was devoted, died in a traffic accident by chance.
After he has retired, he will devote himself to gardening.
4. behave
【课文原句】Jane has studied these animals for many yearsand helped people understand how much they behave like humans. (P2)
【名师点拨】observe vt.意为“观察；观测；遵守”，可用observe sb do sth，observe + that从句。其名词形式为observation。如：
I observed the man who murdered the boy enter the shop.
He observed that we should probably have rain.
【名师点拨】behave vi&vt.意为“举动；举止；行为表现”，如behave well /badly等。其名词形式为behaviour，指“行为；态度；举止”。如：
The parents encouraged the children to behave well in front of the guests.
My class is a big one, including thirty boys and thirty girls.
My class are working hard for the coming exam.
2.有些集合名词作主语时，谓语只能用复数形式，如：people, thepolice, the military, mankind, cattle等。如：
Will you explain to us how we can finish the work as soon as possible?
【知识拓展】careabout意为“介意；在乎”，表示是否认为某事是重要的，某事是否引起了某人的兴趣或使其忧虑。最常用于疑问句或否定句中。about用在宾语前面，但是在连词前面一般省掉。
Most information was collected by direct observation of the animals’ behaviour.
7. argue
【课文原句】She has argued forthem to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. (P2)
如果是A novelist and aplaywright作主语，这时表示“一位小说家和一位剧作家”，是两个人，所以谓语动词用复数，该句应改为：A novelist and a playwrightare coming to our school.
四、The＋adj.作主语时的主谓一致。
当The＋adj.表示抽象的含义时，谓语动词用单数。如：The beautiful is the true.
I will come on condition that Peter is invited.
They agreed under the condition that the matter be dealt with quickly.
3. devote
【课文原句】She devoted all her life tomedical work for Chinese women and children. (P1)
【名师点拨】care for可以表示lookafter的意思，意为“照顾；照料”，且较正式；也可表示“喜欢”的意思。如：
His son cared for him when he was ill.
In fact, I don’t really care for basketball.
另外，在上面的句子中，explain意为“解释，说明”，后可接名词、代词、从句或wh + to do作宾语，可用explainsth to sb或explain to sb sth。如：
【名师点拨】intend v.意为“打算；计划；想要”。intend to do sth意为“想干某事”；intend后也可以接动词-ing形式或that从句。intendfor表示“原打算给某人；准备让……干……”。如：
I intended to come to your house last night but it rained.
【名师点拨】argue作动词时，意为“争论；争吵；争辩”。argue for意为“为……辩护”；argue with sb about /over sth指“就某事和某人争论”；argue against意为“据理反对；争辩……”。如：
It is no use arguing for the plan because it has been rejected.
We are always arguing with each other about money.
Father argued fiercely against any increase in expenditure for the children’s annual party.
【知识拓展】argue的名词形式为argument，意为“争论；争端；论证”，常构成短语settle anargument指“解决争端”。
Everything goes well with me.
Each of the students in our class has an English-Chinese dictionary.
三、“名词＋名词”作主语时的主谓一致。
当表示同一人物或观点时，谓语动词用单数。如：A novelistand playwright is coming to our school.这里表示“一位小说家兼剧作家”，是同一个人，所以谓语动词用单数。
The book referred to by the professor is worthwhile / worth reading.
6. observe
【课文原句】Jane spent manyyears observing and recording their daily activities. (P2)
I don’t care about your opinion.
I don’t care whether it rains — I’m happy.
10. intend
【课文原句】I looked carefully at the text and realised thatit was intended for women who lived in the countryside. (P6)
高中英语必修4知识点讲解
必修4 Unit1 Women of achievement知识点讲解
重点词汇
1. achieve
【课文原句】She has achieved everything she wanted to do…(P3)
【名师点拨】achieve v.意为“完成；达到”，指经过长期努力而达到某目标、地位或标准等。其名词形式为achievement，意为“成就；功绩”，a sense ofachievement可指“成就感”。如：
I intend coming / to come back soon.
He hadn’t really intended that they should be the
热点语法
主谓一致用法难点小结：
一、集合名词作主语时的主谓一致。
1.集合名词有family, team, group,party, class, public, club, crew, crowd, enemy, audience, company, committee, government,population等，当被看作一个整体时，表示单数意义，谓语动词用单数形式；如果这些集合名词指其中的每个成员，表示复数意义，谓语动词则用复数形式。即谓语动词的单复数要与主语的含义相一致。如：