“单数还是复数”——主谓一致用法归纳

“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 i s covered 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