主谓一致

1.所谓的主谓一致就是谓语动词在人称和数上必须保持一致

a. The news is bad.

b. Driving cars is easy.

c. To see is to believe.

d. The light travels in stright line.

e. Nobody knows the answer

不可数名词，可数名词单数，不定代词，动词不定式，动名词或从句充当主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。

2. 代词anyone, someone, everyone, anybody, everybody, somebody, nobody, no one,     anything, something, everything, each, the other等做主语时，谓语动词要用单三形式。

  Nobody knows the secret.

3. the number of +复数名词，表示“…的数量”是单数概念，其谓语动词用单数形式，而a number of+复数名词, 表示“很多”是复数概念，其谓语动词用复数形式。

   The number of people invited was fifty, but a number of them were absent for different reasons.

4. and 和both…and 连接两个并列成分做主语时，谓语动词要用复数形式。

   Rice and bread are my favorite food.

   Both she and I are good at drawing.

注意：但是主语的两个部分指同一人，同一物，或者同一概念时，谓语动词用单数。

The worker and writer has gone to American.(指同一人)

    The worker and the writer have gone to American.(指两个人)

 a knife and fork 一副刀叉

 a cart and horse 一驾马车

 the bread and butter 奶油面包

 my house and home 我的家

 early to bed and early to rise 早睡早起

 以上这些短语都表示单一概念，做主语时谓语动词要用单数形式。

A knife and fork is on the desk.

5. 名词或代词后面有with, together with, along with(和…在一起) but, except (除外), like(如…), as well as (以及) 等引起的短语，谓语动词的形式要与它们前面的名词保持一致。

  No one but Tom and his father has never been

there. 除Tom和他父亲外，没人到过那里。

  A letter together with a photo was sent to his

parents. 一封信，连同一张照片被送给了他的父母。

6. many a (或 more than one)+名词做主语时，尽管有复数概念，但是谓语动词用单数形式。

  Many a person wants to go abroad. 很多人都想出国。

  In our class more than one student does not work hard. 在我们班级里不只一个学生不好好学习。

7. each/ every/ no +名词 and each/ every/no +名词。做主语时，谓语动词要用单数形式。（单数名词做主语，若被each, every, no等词修饰时，谓语动词用单数形式。）

 Each boy and each girl wants to be the first. 每个女孩，每个男孩，都想得第一。

 No teacher and no student is adimitted. 师生一律不准进入。

8. 只有复数形式的名词做主语时，谓语动词要用复数形式，这类词有

  glasses(眼镜)        trousers（裤子）

  chopsticks（筷子）   scissors（剪子）

  compasses（圆规）   goods（货物）

 Where are my trousers? They are on the bed.

9.当主语由, all of, most of, half of, the rest of, a lot of, lots of, plenty of, part of +名词，以及“百分数+of +名词” 做主语时，谓语动词形式与of后的名词保持一致。

 Only a few students are playing. The rest of the students are studying.只有几个学生在玩，其余的都在学习。

 There is lots of rice here.

 There are a lot of books here.

 Eighty percent(80﹪) of the workers have retired in the past ten years.

10. 时间，距离，价格，度量衡等名词表示整体做主语时，谓语动词要用单数形式。

 Ten years is a long time. 十年是一段很长的时间。

 Two and two is four. 二加二等于四。

11. 主语部分含有pair of等短语时，谓语动词要与pair的形式保持一致。与此类似的有，pair of (双) kind of (种) type of (类)

This pair of shoes is very nice. 这双鞋很漂亮。

Many kinds of apples are produced in Yantai.

12.  “the +形容词”作主语指人时，谓语动词用复数形式。

     “the+形容词”作主语指物，或抽象概念，谓语动词用单数形式。

 The rich are not always happy. 富人并不是总快乐。

 The beautiful gives pleasure to all of us.美给我们大家快乐。

 The news is easily accepted by the young. 新事物很容易被年轻人接受。

13. 国家，图书，戏剧，报刊等名称的词做主语时，即使是复数形式，谓语动词也要用单数。

  The States is a developed country. 美国是一个发达的国家。

14.there be句型，either… or, 或者… 或者

   neither… nor  既不…也不

   not only…but also… 不但….而且

    谓语动词就近一致原则。

    Not only I but also Tom and Mary are tired.

15.mathematics, politics, physics, news等，尽管形式上是复数形式，而实际它们是单数，作主语时，谓语动词用单数。

   No news is the best news. 没有消息就是最好的消息。

16．people(人，人们)，police，clothes， cattle，youth（青年们）做主语时，谓语动词用复数形式。

  The police are after him. 警察在到处抓他。

  The cattle are on the hill. 一群牛在山上。

17. one and a half +复数名词作主语时，谓语动词的单复数要看具体情况。

  One and a half hours is enough for me to finish it. 我干这事，一个半小时足够了。

  One and a half apples were left on the table.

  桌子上剩下一个半苹果。

18. a/an+单数名词+or two 作主语，谓语动词用单数。
　　A student or two has failed the exam. 
　　一两个学生考试不及格。

19. 当one or two +可数名词复数，做主语时，谓语动词用复数形式。

   One or two girls have come here. 一两个女孩已经来这里了。

                        主谓一致练习题

1. The police     questioning everyong in the next room.

   A. is    B. are   C. was   D. has been

2. His family     very large and all the family

     workers.

A. are, is   B. is, are  C. are, are  D. is, is

3.The rest of the story     no telling.

  A. needs   B. need  C. needed   D. need to

4. Many a person     present at the meeting.

  A. were   B. was   C. is   D. are

5. The singer and the dancer     going to the library.

  A. is   B, are    C. will be  D. should be

6.Eight times eight     sixty- four

  A. is    B. are   C. was   D. were

7. Either Jane or Steven ___ watching TV now.

　　A. were   B. is     C. was     D. are

8. Two days _______enough for me to finish the work, I need a third day.

A. isn’t     B. is   C. aren’t        D. are

9. The number of the students in our school ___1200.

　A. is     B. are     C. has     D. have

10. Maths ____ my favourite subject.

A. be     B. is     C. am     D. are

11. —What’s on the plate? Some eggs and cakes on it?

　—There _____some eggs and cakes on it.

　　A. is   B. are   C. was   D. were

12. This pair of glasses ______mine.

　　A. are   B. be   C. is    D. will be

13. Both Lily and Lucy ______ to the party yesterday.

　　A. invited          B. was invited

　　C. had invited      D. were invited

14. Doing eye exercises     good for your eyes.

    A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

15. Two months     quite a long time.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

16. Physics     very popular in our class.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

17. The police     having a meeting.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

18. My father, together with his friends    going to visit the Great Wall.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

19. Is he or you     wrong?

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

20. Watching TV too much     bad for your health.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

21. There     a book and some pens on the desk.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

22. There     two glasses of water on the table.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

23. Each of them     an English books.

   A. have     B. has    C. had    D. having

24. A lot of people     been to London.

   A. have     B. has    C. had    D. having

25. One of the students     late for school.

   A. was    B. were    C. has    D. have

26. The boy and the girl      from Japan.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

27. Each boy and every girl     a new dictionary.

   A. have     B. has    C. had    D. having

28. One or two girls     come here.

A. have     B. has    C. had    D. having

29. An apple or two     enough.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be

30. These pairs of glasses     too big for the students.

   A. is   B. am  C. are   D. be