主谓一致 （一）谓语动词常用复数的情况 （一）谓语动词常用复数的情况 1 ）主语为复数名词或代词 The teachers are respected in the world.2) 当 people , police, cattle 等集体名词作主语，形式上 为单数而意义却是复数，谓语用复数 The police are looking for the missing child. The cattle are kept in his farm.3 ）山脉、群岛、瀑布、运动会等 s 结尾的复数名词作主语。 The Olympic Games are held once every four years. The Rocky mountains stand in the west of the north America4 ） the+adj. 表示一类人 或物做主语时 如 the+blind,deaf, living,dead,wounded,poor,richold, young 等The dead are soon forgotten.The rich are not always happy.Generally speaking the young are eager for success.5) the+ 姓的复数形式表一家人 The Whites are going to make a trip to London.The Greens were watching TV when a fire broke out. （二）谓语动词常用单数的情况 （二）谓语动词常用单数的情况 1 ）可数名词的单数及不可数名词作主语时。2 ）表示时间、距离、金钱、长度、重量等复数名词作主语，表达一个整体概念时。 Twenty years is only a short time in human history.3) 主语从句、动词不定式、动名词 形式作主语时， 谓语动词用单数。 Looking after the children is my full time job.To die for the people is a worthy death.When and where to hold the meeting is unknown.Whatever was left was taken away.4) 以 -S 结尾的单数名词，形式为复数而意义为单数如表示学科、国家、机构、书籍、报刊等名称作主语 ,(news, physics, maths ， politics) 谓语用单数。The United states is made up of 50 states.The Times is a newspaper for the British governmentGreat Expectations was written by Charles Dickens in 1860. 5) clothing, furniture, traffic, jewellery, baggage, equipment, luggage 等无生命的集合名词作主语。 Clothing is badly needed in this flooded area. 6) each neither either+of + the+ 复数名词或代词Each of us has a dictionary.Either of the boo...
