集体名词作主语主谓一致
1)通常作复数的集体名词
集体名词,如:police, people, cattle(牛)销售心态, militia(民兵组织), poultry(家禽)等,
通常作复数,用复文明与我同行数动词。如:
Domestic cattle provide us with milk, beef and hides.
2)通常作不可数名词的集体名词易名
有些集体名词,如 machinery [məˈʃi:nəri](机器), equipment, furniture, merchandi [ˈmə:tʃəndaiz] (商品、货物),通常作不可数名词,随后的动词用单数。
例如:All the machinery in the factory is made in China.
3)既可作单数也可作复数的集体名词
A、集体名词,如team, group, crowd, audience, committee(委员会), look的音标 class, crew(全体工作人员,全体船员), family, public, government, council(议会、理事会)等,既可作单数,也可作复数用。
The city council is meeting to t its agenda(日程).
练习:
1. The class ________ (consist) twenty-five boys and twenty girls.
2. 养发The class ___________(do) experiments.
B、由两部分组成的物质名称,如 trours(裤子), pants(裤子), jeans, compass(指南针), glass, shorts(短裤) 等做主语时,谓语用法国服装复数
The trours _________( need wash)
Your glass ______ very nice.
4)当集体名词被以下量词短语修饰时,
龙湖公园A: a (the, this, that) kind /sort / type/form/portion(份额)/ries/ species of + 名词”或 “a pair of, a large amount of, a committee of /a board of(一组) + 名词” 做主语,谓语用单数形式;
但“the (tho, all, many, some) kinds/sorts/types/forms /portions of ,two pairs of, large amounts of, quantities of + 名词”做主语,谓语则用复数形式。
Eg. This kind of book is uful for us.
Many kinds of shoes are on sale in that shop.
A committee of five men and three women is to consider the matter.
B: “a quantity of +名词, 分数、百分数”做主语,则谓语单复数由名词定
With more and more forests being destroyed, quantities of good earth are ( a large quantity of good earth_____) being washed away each year.
What is wor, waste water and rubbishes poured into rivers, as well as oil and nuclear leak, cau huge damage to oceans.
Thus, there _____ a small quantity of clear water left and there _____ a large quantity of a animals dying of marine pollution.
C: a number of , a variety of, a group of + 复数名词 + 复数谓语
the number of, the variety of + 复数名词+ 单数谓语
如:
A number of pasngers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 _____________ (lo ) contact, the number of China pasngers ______ 153.
练习:
浙江大学面积1.This pair of trours ______ mine.
2.Here ______ some new pairs of shoes.
3. He joins the team who ______ all famous footballers.
4. A football team which _______ (keep) on training hard _____ more likely to win.