知识点1:谓语用单数的情况
谓语需用单数的部分情况:
1) 代词each和由every, some, no, any等构成的复合代词作主语,或主语中含有each, every, 谓语需用单数.例如:
[1]主语,代词,相关知识点there be结构的主语可以是代词吗there be结构的主语可以是代词吗there be结构中的主语可以是代词,如:There’s but we two. 只有我们两个人。Let’s see, there’s you and me…让我想一想,有你和我……I’m old and he is my son. There is only he to take my body t
Each of us has a tape-recorder. There is something wrong with my watch.
2) 当主语 是一本书或一条格言时,谓语动词常用 单数.例如:
[2]主语,动词,相关知识点知识点1:“动词+间接宾语+直接宾语”改为被动时,可以用间接宾语做被动句的主语。如:His teacher gave him a dictionary.—He was given a dictionary by his teacher.(老师给他一本字典—他得到老师一本字典)也可以用直接宾语做被动句的主语,但是需用to或者for引出原句的间接宾语。如:His teacher g
The Arabian Night is a book known to lovers of English.
[3]Arabian单词记忆法◆记忆方法一:词根词缀记忆法:Arabian a 阿拉伯的,“ian”表形容词,“…国家的”
< The Arabian Night >是英语爱好者熟悉的一本好书.
3) 表示金钱,时间.距离.价格或度量衡的复合名词作主语时,通常把这些名词看作一个整体,谓语一般用单数.(用复数也可,意思不变.) 例如:
[4]主语,名词,相关知识点认为sure不能以事物名词作主语是误解=I’m sure that it will rain tomorrow.The train is sure to arrive on time.=I’m sure that the train will arrive on time.二、表示判断或信念时当sure表示句子主语的判断或信念时,句子的主语只能是人,不能是物。因为从逻辑上讲,只
Three weeks was allowed for making the necessary preparations. Ten yuan is enough.
知识点2:quantity作主语时谓语用单数还是复数
[5]复数,主语,相关知识点few 虽然含意上是"几乎没有",但作主语时仍要当作复数。[误] Girls like dancing very much, but few likes playing football [正] Girls like dancing very much, but few like playing football [析] few 虽然含意上是"几乎没有",但作主语时仍要当作
quantity作主语时谓语用单数还是复数
1. 若单独用quantity作主语,谓语动词用单数。如:
It is used to emphasize that the quantity is very large. 它用于强调数量很大。
[6]that,very,相关知识点so…that还是very…thatso…that还是very…thatHe looked _________ funny that we couldn’t help laughing.A. very B. much D. rather D. so答案选D,请注意其后的 that,该句使用的是 so … that …句式,句意为“他看上去很滑稽,我们都禁不住笑了”。从语法角度讲
2. 若用于a great (large, small) quantity of…结构,其后主要接不可数名词,但有时也接复数名词;这类结构用作主语时,其谓语的数原则上与其中的名词的数保持一致。如:
[7]不可数名词,可数名词,相关知识点newspaper是可数名词还是不可数名词newspaper是可数名词还是不可数名词newspaper是可数名词还是不可数名词? 请看这道题:When I came in, my father was reading __________ in bed. A. a newspaperB. a piece of newspaperC. newspaper D. a pile of