高考英语语法学案专题14 主谓一致与数词

主谓一致

在英语的句子中，谓语动词的形式应与主语的人称和数保持一致。近几年来，高考关于该内容的考查主要集中在形式一致、承前一致以及就近一致三个方面。

一、使用复数谓语动词的情况

1．由and, both…and…连接两个主语时，谓语动词用复数形式。如：

Both the teacher and the students are working hard.

但当and 连接的两个名词指的是同一个人、同一事物或同一概念，且第二个名词前没有冠词等限定词时；另外，and连接的两个名词前有each，every等修饰语时，谓语动词用单数。如：The knife and fork lies on the table.

2．“the＋形容词或过去分词”指一类人时，谓语动词用复数形式。如：

The wounded were sent to the hospital at once.

3．the people/cattle/police作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式。如：

After hearing the news, the people present were all crying.

二、使用单数谓语动词的情况

1．单数名词、不可数名词、不定代词，如something/somebody, everything/everybody, anything/anybody, nothing/nobody作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。如：

Anybody who breaks the law is to be punished.

2．不定式、动名词、主语从句作主语，谓语动词用单数形式。如：

Looking after the baby is my job.

3．名词，以-s结尾的单数名词，以-s结尾的书名、报纸杂志名、地方、组织名称作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。如：Physics is hard to study.

rather than, as much as,

，as well as，together with，with, along with 单数名词＋．4．

but, except, besides, such as, like, including等作主语时，谓语动词仍用单数形式。如：Tom as well as two of his friends was invited to the party.

三、使用就近原则的情况

or, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also, not…but连接两个主语时，谓语动词与靠近它的主语保持一致。如：

Either the students or their teacher dislikes basketball，otherwise they would

take part in the basketball match.

四、集体名词作主语时主谓一致的情况

若看作一个整体，谓语动词用单数形式；若侧重于个体，谓语动词用复数形式。常见的集体名词有：class, family，population, mittee等。如：

The whole family are farmers.

五、几个具体情况

1．none作主语时，谓语动词多用复数形式，也可用单数形式。如：

None of this money is yours.

None of these suggestions are very helpful.

2．a number of＋复数名词，谓语动词用复数形式，the number of＋复数名词，谓语动词用单数形式。如：

A number of students study at home nowadays on weekends.

The number of students in my class is 63.

3．one of＋复数名词，后面跟定语从句时，谓语动词用复数形式，即与复数名词一致；the (only) one of＋复数名词，谓语动词用单数形式，即与the (only) one一致。如：

He is one of the students who are against the plan.

The only one of the students who is to be punished is Tom.

4．“some＋复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式；some＋单数名词作主语时，some意为“某个”，谓语动词用单数形式。如：

Some student is on duty today.

Some students in my class are very lazy.

5．trousers, shoes, glasses, scissors等复数名词作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式，但a

的结构作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。如：pair of…．

This pair of glasses is expensive.

6．单复数同形的名词作主语。

英语中一些单复数同形的名词作主语时，应根据其表达的意义来决定谓语动词的单复数，常见的这类名词有works(工厂)，police(警察)，sheep(绵羊)，deer(鹿)，fish(鱼)，means(方法)，species(种类)，Chinese(中国人)，Japanese(日本人)；Swiss(瑞士人)；series(系列)等。如：Every possible means has been used to prevent the air pollution, but the sky is

still not clear.

7．what /whoever /which引导的主语从句充当主语时，有时要看what /whoever /which所指代的词的意义来决定谓语动词的数。如：

What he said is true.

What we need are more volunteers.

8．“分数(百分数)＋of ＋名词”作主语时，谓语动词的形式要根据名词确定。如：

One-third of us are boys.

Two-fifths of water is clear.

9．“more than one /many a ＋单数名词”作主语时，尽管其意义复数，但谓语动词还是用单数形式。但“more than ＋复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词要用复数。

数词

数词分为基数词、序数词、分数、小数和概数。复习时要注意下面问题：

1．基数词的意义：表示事物数量的多少，特别是hundred，thousand，million等，前面若有