主谓一致常考的难题
在高考试题中,主谓一致知识点经常出现,现将主谓一致常考难题总结如下:
1、一些有两个部分构成的名词表示衣物或工具作主语时, 谓语通常用复数形式:glasses, clothes,
trousers, shoes, compasses, chopsticks, scissors等。但如果主语用a kind of , a pair of , a
series of等加名词构成时, 谓语动词一般用单数形式。A pair of shoes was on the desk.
2、并列主语如果指的是同一个人、同一事物或同一概念时, 谓语动词用单数形式, 这时and后面的名词没有冠词。
例如:Truth and honesty is the best policy.
The girl’s teacher and friend is a young doctor.
To love and to be loved is the great happiness.
Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit.
3、当主语后面跟有as well as, as
much as , no less than, along with, with, like, rather than, together with,
but, except, besides, including, in addition to等引导的词组时, 其谓语动词的单、复数按主语的单、复数而定。
例如:The teacher as well as the students was excited.
The room with its furniture was rented.
4、A (great) number
of修饰可数复数名词, 谓语动词用复数; a great deal
of,a large amount of 修饰不可数名词, 其短语作主语时, 谓语动词用单数。关系代词who, that, which等在定语从句中作主语时, 其谓语动词的数应与句中先行词的数一致。
例如:Those who want to go please sign your names here.
Some of the energy that is used by man comes from the sun.
5、如果主语由“the+形容词(或过去分词)”结构担任时,
谓语通常用复数, 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
oppressed, the injured, the wounded, the unemployed等。
练习题:
1、Five minutes-----
enough to do this exercise.(is)
2、Each boy and each
girl ------to serve the people in future.(wants)
3、More than one
student----- seen the film. (has)
4、Many a ship-----
been damaged in the storm. (has)
5、More members than
one ------against your plan. (are)