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 i