2． 动词不定式，动名词，从句或不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
To e is to believe. It is not easy to master a foreign language.
3． 由and连接两个成分作主语时，要根据其表示的意义来决定谓语动词的形式。如果其表示的是一个整体的概念或指的是同一事物，谓语动词用单数，如果其表示的是两个不同的对象时，谓语动词用复数。
The writer and the teacher are coming.
wolford The poet and teacher is one of my friends.
4． 集合名词people，police一般看作复数意义，其谓语动词用复数。另外一些集合名词family，enemy，class，army等作主语时，谓语动词是用单数还是复数，要根据这些词在句中的实际含义而定。当他们表示的是整体意义时，谓语用单数；当他们强调个体成员时，谓语动词用复数形式。
poisonivyIn England, people eat fish and chips.
The Chine people（民族）is a great people.
5． 名词性物主代词mine，yours，his，hers， its，ours，theirs等作主语时，谓语动词的数取决于该代词所表示的意义是单数还是复数。
His parents are young, but mine are old.
6． 以s结尾的名词本身不表示复数意义时，谓语动词通常用单数形式，如news，physics，politics，maths等。
No news is good news. Physics is the most difficult subject for him.
7． 由or，either…or…，neither…nor…，not only…but also…等词连接名词或代词作主语时，谓语动词的数和最接近的主语一致。
Neither you nor Li Hua has been to Shanghai before.
8． 以there，here开头的句子，若主语不止一个，其谓语动词的形式和邻近的那个主语一致。
There is a table and four chairs in the room.
Here are some books and paper for you.
cute什么意思9． trours，clothes，glass，compass，chopsticks等作主语时，谓语动词用复数。但如果前面有a pair of短语时，谓语动词用单数。
Jim’s trours are brown. The pair of glass is Mr. Green’s.
10． 由“a lot of/lots of/plenty of+名词”或“分数+名词”作主语时，谓语动词的单复数根据名词的单复数而定。
A lot of people have been to London.
Three-fifths of the water is dirty.
11． “a number of +复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用复数；“the number of+复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
A great number of birds fly to the south in winter.
The number of lions does not change much if people leave things as they are.
12．代词something，anything，nothing，everyone，anybody，nobody，each，neither，either，little，much，one等作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。
Neither of us is a boy。
Each of them has an English dictionary。
One of the students was late for school。
拥有英文13．All，some none，most，any等代词作主语时，若其指复数概念，谓语动词用复数形式；若其指单数形式，则谓语动词用单数形式。
Not all work is difficult。
either的用法 Not all the students are here。
陕西二级建造师报名时间14．有些形容词前面加上定冠词the，如the poor，the old，the yong，the rich，the dying等用来表示一类人时，主语为复数意义，谓语动词用复数。
The old are good taken care of。primy
15．Many a意为“许多”，但因后面跟的是单数名词，谓语动词应用单数形式。
Many a student has pasd the exam。
练习：
1．The news for my brother。
A. are B. were C. be D. is
2．A boy with two dogs when the earthquake rocked the city。
A. were sleeping B. is asleep
C. was sleeping D. are asleep
3．Everyone except Tom and John there when the meeting began。
品种英文 A. are B. is C. was D. were
4．Neither he nor I from Canada。We are from Australia 。
A. is B. are C. am D. be
5．Jim works hard on his Chine and 。
A. so Lucy does B. so is Lucy
C. so does Lucy D. so Lucy is
6．Jenny and her parents going to visit the Palace Muum tomorrow。.
A. is B. am C. are D. be
7．Henry，with his friends， volleyball every afternoon。
A. play B. plays C. has played D. have played
8．Fish and chips the most take—away food in England。
A. are B. is C. were D. was
9．My family early in the morning。
A. get B. gets C. has got D. have got
10．Maths my favorite subject。
A. be B. is C. am D. are
11. How time flies! Three years really a short time.
