主谓一致用法归纳

the flood.

若看作两种不同物质时，谓语用复数。如：Water and air are what we must need.

4）用and连接的两个名词，如果表示两个部件构成的物品组成一副用具时，谓语应使用单数。如：A knife and fork is very useful for a foreigner.

3、集合名词的主谓一致：集合名词如：family,team,class,group ,government ,court, committee, population, audience等词作主语时，若看作整体时用单数谓语，若看作个体时用复数谓语。

如：The family is a large one. The family are all music lovers.

4、the+adj或分词作主语时，若指一类人，谓语用复数，若指抽象的含义时，谓语动词用单数。

如：The blind usually trust their sense of touch.

The good is beautiful, but the beautiful is not always good.

5、由连词or ;either… or…;neit h er…nor…;not

only …but also…等词后边的名词或代词保持一致。如：You or he is to blame. Either you or I am right.

但疑问句与前边一致。如：Are either you or he right?

6、主语+but / except / besides/ as well as / in addition to / including / with +其它名词或代词时，谓语动词与前边的主语一致。如：No one but Tom and John likes the topioc.

7、表示时间、重量、长度、价值的复数名词作主语时，若看作整体时，谓语用单数。

如：Three years is a long time.但如果强调具体多少年时，谓语用复数。

如：Three years have passed.

8、由each…and each…every…and every no…and no…many a …and many a …等并列单数名词作主语时，谓语用单数。如：Every teacher and every student is working hard.

9、被each或every 限定的词作主语时，谓语用单数。如：Every student is working hard.

但each若作主语的同位语时，或于句尾作状语时，不影响主语的数。

如：They each have an English dictionary .They were given an English book, each.

10、在定语从句中，关系代词作主语时，谓语与先行词一致。

如：He is one of the students who have passed the ex am.但如果在one前若有the 或the only 修饰时，谓语用单数。如:He is the only one of the students who has passed the exam.

11、当more than one 或many a 引导主语时，谓语用单数。如：Many a student is going there.

12、在there be 句型中，若有几个主语并列时，谓语用复数或同与there be 最近的主语一致。如：There is (are )a book, a pen and some books on the desk.注：一般采取就近原则。

There is a book and two pens on the desk . There are two pens and a book on the desk .

13、不定代词的主谓一致，不定代词如everything nothing ,no one ,everyone, someone等作主语时谓语用单数。none作主语时，谓语可用复数（或单数=no one的含义）。当either或neither作主语时谓语常用单数（在非正式文体，口语中有时用复数）；当some; all; most ; the rest of …作主语时，根据意义来确定。

如：All are there .（大定都在这）All is clear.（一切都清楚了）

14、加、减、乘、除算式中，谓语常用单数，但在非正式文体中也有用复数的情况。

如：Two plus two is four.(plus ,minus ,times,divided by相当于介词用)

15、分数（百分数）+of +名词作主语时，谓语动词根据情况来确定。

如：One third of the apple is rotten. One third of the apples are green ones.

16、不定式，动名词，从句作主语时，谓语常用单数。但what人句则根据情况确定。

如：What we need here is an

English teacher. What we need here are two English teachers.

When and where we shall hold the meeting has not been decided yet.

17、who,which作主语时，谓语根据其意义可用单数或复数。

18、强调句型的主谓一致，在强调句型中，谓语与被强调部分一致。

如：It is I who am for the plan.

It is he who is to blame.

练习

1、——Was everybody present at the meeting? ——No, all but one there.

A. was

B. were C .has gone D. is

2、Every means .

A. have been tried

B. has been tried

C. have tired

D. has tried 3、The police the lost boy in the forest.

A .were searching

B .was searching

C .were searching for

D .was looking f