主谓一致 周容 发布时间： 2010-8-6 10:10:19 英语中主语和谓语在人称和数上必须保持一致。这种一致关系一般遵循三条原则：语法一致原则、概念（意义）一致原则、毗邻一致原则。在用英语表达时，必须注意主谓一致，否则就容易出错。本文以三条原则为基础对英语主谓一致进行论述。 1、语法上一致（grammatial concord）。主要指动词和主语在数和人称上的一致。传统语法规则大多符合这个原则。 1〉主语为单数形式，谓语动词用单数形式；主语为复数形式，谓语动词也用复数形式。例如： This girl is clever enough to study maths well. The masses have full confidence in the their leaders 2〉、一些由两个部分构成的名词表示衣物或工具，作主语时，谓语通常用复数形式，如glasses（眼镜），clothes，trousers，shoes，compasses(圆规)，shopsticks，scissors，scales(天平)，spectacles（眼镜），gloves，stochings，pants 等。例如： His trousers have worn out . My glasses are new . 但如果主语由“a kind of ,a pair of , a series of 等加名词”构成时，谓语动词一般用单数形式。 例如：A pair of shoes was in the box . “pair , piece + of + 名词或物主代词”作主语时，谓语动词与 pair 和 piece 等词保持一致，与 of 之后的名词或代词无关。例如： The pieces of stone were then carried to the new place for the temple , 60 metres higher up the hill . They watched pairs of people who were sitting in college coffee— shops for at least an hour . 3〉、如果主语被 more than one….或many a ….修饰时，尽管从意义上看是复数内容，但它的谓语动词仍用单数形式。这符合语法一致原则。例如： More than one student has seen the film . Many a ship has been damaged in the storm . 但是，“more + 复数名词 + than one”结构之后，谓语动词一般多用复数形式。例如： More members than one are against your plan . 4〉、each , every , no 所修饰的名词即使以and 或逗号连接成多个并列主语，谓语动词仍用单数形式。例如： Each boy and each girl wants to serve the people. No teacher and no student is excused from taki...
