主谓一致用法详解

主谓一致用法详解

一：主谓一致一般有以下三条原则：

1、语法一致，即在语法形式上取得一致，例如主语为单数形式，谓语也用单数形式，主语

用复数形式，谓语也用复数形式。

The number of mistakes was surprising.

Li Ping and her twin sister naturally look a lot alike.

2、意义一致，即从意义上着眼处理一致关系。例如，主语形式虽为单数但意义为复数，谓

语动词也采取复数形式。

The crowed were fighting for their lives.

或者主语形式虽为复数但意义上视为单数，谓语动词也用单数形式。

Three years in a strange land seems like a long time.

3、就近原则，即谓语动词的单复数取决于最靠近它的主语。

There is a teacher and some students in our classroom.

4)就前原则,当主语后面跟有

as well as, as much as,no less than, along with,

with, like, rather than, together with, but,

except, besides,including, in addition to

等词组时，其谓语动词的单复数按主语的单复数而定。

1)The teacher , with 6 girls and 8 boys of her class, ______ visiting

a museum when the earthquake struck. (NMET2004 北京卷)

A. was B . were C. had been D. would be

2）Nobody but John and Helen _is_____ absent.

I, rather than you，_am____ responsible for the accident.

二：用单数的情况

1)当主语为表示度量、时间、金钱、距离等复数名词，一般根据意义一致的原则，把这些

复数名词看作一个整体，谓语动词采取单数。

Ten dollars is not enough.

Three months is a long time.

2)有些以-s结尾的n(如news, mathematics, physics, politics)因在意义为单数，所以谓语采用单数形式。

The news is exciting.

Physics is one of the most difficult subjects for me.

3)如果主语是一个表示抽象概念的不定式，动名词或名词性从句，谓动都采用单数形式。

To say sth is one thing and to do is another.

Whether he comes or not doesn’t matter.

Reading English magazines and novels is helpful to our English study.

4)如果主语为单数，尽管后面跟with, together with, as well as, no less than,

like, but, except等引导的短语谓动仍用单数形式。

The teacher, as well as some Ss is coming.

Nobody but Tom and Marry was in the classroom just now.

5)由some, any, no, every构成的复合代词，都作单数看待，因此谓动都采取单数形

式。

Is everyone here?