三、语法解读

主谓一致

(1)有些集合名词如crowd,family,team,group,government,committee,class,union,firm,staff,

public等,它们作主语时,谓语动词的数要根据语言内容而定。如果它们作为一个集体单位时,动词用单数形式,如指其中的各个成员,则谓语动词用复数形式。例如:

His family is going to move.他家准备搬走。

His family are very well.他的家人很健康。

(2)有些表示总称意义的名词如people,police,militia,cattle,poultry(家禽)等,形式上是单数,而意义上却是复数,谓语动词要用复数形式。例如:

The police are searching for a tall dark man with a beard.

警察正在找一个留着胡子的黑大个子。

(3)有些名词如means,works单复数形式相同。它们作主语时,谓语动词的数视其表示的意义而定。例如:

This works is set up in 1970.这家工厂建立于1970年。

Those works will be closed.那些厂子将要关闭。

(4)用and连接的单数主语,前面有each,every,many a,no等修饰时,谓语动词要用单数形式。例如:

Each pen and each paper is found in its place.

每枝笔,每张纸都摆放有序。