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1.集合名词如:group, family, class, government, team, public, enemy, crowd, audience, club, party, crew等做主语时,如果看成一个整体,谓语动词用单数形式,如果侧重其成员,谓语动词用复数形式。My family has four people.My family all like watching football games.我家有四口人。我的家人都喜欢看足球比赛。
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2.由a kind of, this kind of, many kinds of, 名词+of this kind(type, sort, part, piece, section, pair)等构成的短语做主语时,谓语动词与of前的名词保持数的一致。This kind of animals is dangerous.Animals of this kind are dangerous.这种动物很危险。3.“a large amount of+不可数名词”做主语,谓语动词用单数形式。“large amounts of+不可数名词”做主语,谓语动词用复数形式。“a good/great deal of+不可数名词”做主语,谓语动词用单数形式。Vast amounts of money are being invested in the local market.大量资金投放到当地的市场上。
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1.由some, plenty, a lot, lots, most, the rest, all, half, part或分数、百分数+of+名词等短语做主语时,谓语动词常与of后的名词保持数的一致。如果of后面所接名词为复数形式,谓语动词用复数形式;如果of后面所接名词为单数或不可数名词,谓语动词就用单数形式。About one third of the books are well worth reading.大约三分之一的书非常值得阅读。Over 30% of the work has been finished.百分之三十以上的工作已经完成了。