文档介绍:Pick up Your Grammar
主谓一致
Consistency of Subject and Predicate
1. 语法形式一致
2. 概念一致(语言内容上一致)
3. 毗邻一致(就近原则)
主谓一致遵循许多原则,概括起来不外乎三种一致原则,即:语法形式一致、概念一致(语言内容上一致)、毗邻一致(谓语动词的单复数形式和紧位于其前的主语一致)。
另外,还有代词的指代一致,即代词应该在人称、数、性等方面与所指的词保持一致。
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1. 语法形式一致
(1)单数主语、单个动词不定式、动名词短语及句子作主语,谓语动词要用单数形式。复数主语,用and或both ... and ...连接的动词不定式短语、动名词短语及主语从句作主语,谓语动词则用复数形式。
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例如:
Serving the people is my great happiness.
为人民服务是我最大的幸福。
Whether we’ll go depends on the weather.
我们去不去要取决于天气的好坏。
What I think and what I seek have been fairly reflected in my paper.
我所思考的和我所寻求的都在这个论文中体现了出来。
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(2)由as well as, with, along with, like, together with, rather than, except, but, including, accompanied by, plus, besides, in addition to, no less than等引起的结构跟在主语后面,不能看作是并列主语,该主语不受这些词组引导的插入语的影响,主语如是单数,其谓语动词仍然用单数形式。
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例如:
The reading course book, plus its reference books, is helpful to college students.
教材加上参考书对大学生是非常有益的。
The man together with his wife and children sits on the sofa watching TV.
那个人和他的妻儿坐在沙发上看电视。
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(3)有些代词只能指单数可数名词,当它们在句子中作主语时,尽管在意义上是多数,谓语动词仍要用单数形式。
这类代词有either, neither, each, one, the other, another, somebody, someone, something, anyone, anything, anybody, everyone, everything, everybody, no one, nothing, nobody等。
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例如:
Neither likes the friends of the other.
两人都不喜欢对方的朋友。
Everything around us is matter.
我们周围的所有东西都是物质。
(4)当and连接的两个名词是指同一个人或同一件事,若and后的名词前没有冠词,谓语动词应该用单数形式;若and后面的名词前有冠词,谓语就用复数形式。
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例如:
The bread and butter is served for breakfast. 早饭供应黄油面包。
The bread and the butter are on sale. 正在出售黄油和面包。
(5)当one of, a portion of, a series of, a species of, a chain of 等结构作主语时,谓语动词要用单数形式。
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例如:
One of those students has passed the examination.
这些学生只有一个考试及格了。
A series of pre-recorded tapes has been prepared for language laboratory use.
为语音课提前准备了一系列