主谓一致性要点综述_复数论文

主谓一致性要点综述_复数论文

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英语句子中,要根据主语的人称和数来决定谓语动词的形式变化,这就叫主谓一致。它通常依据三项原则:(1)语法一致;(2)意义一致;(3)就近一致。现分述如下:

一、语法一致原则

I.主语的人称决定谓语动词的形式。

I love/She loves music.

Ⅱ.主语的数决定谓语动词的形式。

1.不可数名词、可数名词单数、单数代词做主语用单数谓语形式;复数的名词、代词做主语,接复数谓语形式。例如:

The work is important.

They have gone to Chengdu.

2.单个动名词、不定式或主语从句做主语,用单数谓语形式;一个以上动名词、不定式或主语从句做主语,接复数谓语形式。

例如:

Seeing is believing.

Seeing and dancing are two of her hobbies.

3.只有复数的名词,如clothes,trousers,pants,shoes,glasses,scissors,compasses,goods等做主语,用复数谓语形式;但用a pair of等短语修饰trousers,shoes,glasses等词时,用单数形式。

Ⅲ.以and或both…and连接的并列主语。

1.“n.+and+n.”结构通常作复数用,但表示一种事物或概念时,则用作单数。例如:

Plastics and rubber never rot.

Fish and chips is a popular supper.

2.如果并列主语指的是同一个人(事、物、抽象概念),名词前用一个冠词修饰作单数用;如果指两个不同的人或物时,则要用两个冠词,谓语动词用复数。例如:

The worker and writer has come.

The worker and the writer have come.

3.and前、后的单数词语都有each,every,many,a,no等修饰时,仍作单数用。例如:

Every boy and every girl enjoys equal rights here.

No teacher and no student is excused fromraking part in the activity.

Ⅳ.主语前、后加表数、量等的修饰语时:

1.“many a+单名”接单数谓语:“a good(great)many+复名”接复数谓语。例如:

Many a fine man has died for it.

A great many parents were present at themeeting.

2.“a/an+单名+or two”多接单数谓语:“oneor two+复名”多接复数谓语。例如:

A day or two is enough.

One or two reasons were given.

3.“a/an+单名+and a half”常接单数谓语:“one and a half+复名”常接复数谓语。例如:

A year and a half has passed.

One and a half tons of rice are sold.

4.“more than one+单名”结构虽有复数意义,习惯上多接单数谓语。例如:

More than one person was(were)absent.

5.“more+复名+than one”结构多接复数谓语。例如:

More students than one have been there.

6.“more than two(three,…)+复名”接复数谓语。例如:

More than one hundred students haveattended the concert.

7.在“两个形容词+一个单数名词”结构中,该名词如有复数意义(即代表两个事物),则接复数谓语动词。例如:

English and French grammar are not verydifficult to learn.

8.主语前加表示单位、度量的短语,如akind(sort/type/form/pair/cup/glass/piece/load/block/box/handful/quantity/ton/meter/…)of等时,表示单位、度量的这个名词的单复数决定谓语形式,但强调个别成员时可用复数。例如:

A pair of gloves is a nice present.

A pair of thieves are stealing something inthe room.

This kind of apples is(are)sweet.(多以kind为中心词,作单数用)

但:Apples of this kind are sweet.(总作复数用)

9.主语后接with等构成的短语修饰成分时:谓语仍须与这类短语前的主语一致。可构成这类短语的常有with,along with,together with,aswell as,but,besides,except,added to,including,like,no less than,rather than,as much as,morethan等。例如:

The teacher as well as his students was latefor the meeung.

Nobody but your parents knows about it.

10.one of+复数名词+定语从句:先行词是这个复数名词,从句谓语用复数形式。若one前有this,the,the only等修饰时,先行词是one,从句应接单数谓语。例如:

He was one of the boys who were praised.(“who”指代“boys”)

He was the only one of the boys who was praised.(“who”指代"the only one”)

二、意义一致原则

I.集体名词做主语时:

1.有些表示总称意义的词如:people,police,cattle,public,youth,folk,militia(民兵)等做主语时,常接复数谓语。例如:

The police have caught the murderer.

2.有些名词指整体时理解作单数,指其中的“成员”时理解作复数(不变词形)。如family,class,team,group,army,nation,world、governmnt,enemy,public.audience,club,company,crew,crowd,staff(员工),party,union,couple,population等。例如:

My family isn't large.

My family are all interested in collecting stamps.

上述某些集体名词也可有复数形式。如:families,two classes等。但有些变复数形式后意义不同,如peoples(多个民族);youths(年轻人);folks(亲属)

Ⅱ.代词作主语时:

1.不定代词each,one,much,(a)little,either,neithcr,another,the other(+单名)等常作单数用。它们所修饰的主语也作单数。例如:

Each of the girls(Each girl)has a new hat.

2.下列复合不定代词,如someone,somebody,something,anybody,anyone,anything,everybody,everyone,everything,nobody,no one,nothing等一般作单数用。例如:

Everyone has his/her own hobby.

3.下列不定代词作复数用:(a)few,many,several,both等。例如:

Few(of the guests)were familiar to us.

4.下列代词须视其具体所指来决定单、复数:

(1)what,which,who,Whose等。例如:

Who is your brother?

Who are League Members?

(2)all,some,more,most,any,none,a lot(of),lots(of),等。例如:

All(of the students)are working hard.

All(of the paint)is fine.

(3)half(of),plenty.(of),the rest(of),(a)part(of),the remainder(of)(余下的)等。例如:

Half of the apples are bad.

Half of the apple is bad.

Ⅲ.数词、数量、单位等词语做主语时:

1.表示运算的数词通常作单数。例如:

Ten times four makes(make)forty.

2.表时间、距离、金额、度量衡等的词语,作整体看时作单数用,侧重指若干单位时作复数用。例如:

Twenty years is not a long time.

Twenty years have passed since he left.

3.分数、百分数通常依其具体所指来决定单、复数。例如:

About 30 percent/two-fifths of the students here are girls.

Only sixty percent/three-fifths of the workwas done yesterday.

4.a number of(许多)/a variety of(各式各样)+复数名词,常作复数用。例如:

A number of students in this class are from Sichuan.

但the number(数目)/the variety(种类)+of+复数名词,被看作单数。例如:

The number of students in this college hasdoubled.

Ⅳ.单、复数同形或易混的词做主语时:

1.以-ics结尾的学科名词:指教育、科研的某一学科,作单数。例如:

Mathematics seems easy to me.

但是,表具体的学业、活动等时,多用作复数。例如:

Her mathematics are weak.(指“学业成绩、能力”)

2.works工厂,means方法,series系列,species物种等名词单、复数同形,要根据其具体意义来决定单、复数。例如:

This works was built two years ago.

Every means has(All means have)been tried.

这类名词还有fish,deer,sheep,plastics,manners(礼貌)等。但news(消息)是不可数名词,通常只作单数用。

V.the+名词化的形容词(或分词)做主语时:

1.指一类人或事物时,常作复数用。例如:

The English speak English.

The rejected were heaped in the corner

2.指某一个人,或抽象的事物时,作单数用。例如:

The deceased was his father.

The new and progressive always wins overthe old.

Ⅵ.专用名词做主语时:

1.书名、剧名、报刊名、国家名等通常作单数用。例如:

The United States was founded in 1776.

The Arabian Nights is very interesing.

2.书刊名作单数或复数均可,尤其是编成集子的书。例如:

Dickens'American Notes were(was)publishedin 1842.

Ⅶ.what等引导的从句做主语时:

1.多数表单数意义。例如:

What he says doesn't agree with what hedoes.

2.从句是含复数意义的并列结构或表语是复数时,谓语用单数或复数均可。例如:

What you say and think is/are no business ofmine.

What he bought was/were some books.

三、就近一致原则

邻近原则是指谓语与靠近的名词、代词(有时不一定是主语)在人称、数上一致。

1.由下列词语连接并列主语时:or.nor,ei-ther...or,neither...nor,not only...but also,not...but,whether...or等。例如:

Neither you nor I am wrong.

Either you or he has to answer for it.

2.在倒装句中(含there be结构):谓语一般应与最近的主语一致。例如:

In the distance was heard the clapping of hands and the shouts of the people.

There is(are)a pen and some books on the desk.

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