选 修 7 Units 3~ 专项语法十四 主谓一致 要点精析 一、语法一致原则 主语单复数决定谓语动词的单复数形式,即主语是单数,谓语用单数,主语是复数,谓语用复数。 Two students are waiting for you in your office. 两名学生在办公室等你。 二、意义一致原则 1.谓语动词用单数的情况 (1)由连词and连接的并列成分指的是同一概念,兼具身份或匹配出现。 The worker and writer is from Wuhan. 那个工人兼作家来自武汉。 (2)“no/each/every/many a+单数名词+and+no/each/every/ many a+单数名词”作主语。 Every man and every woman has a good reason to be proud of the work done by their fathers. 每一个人都很有理由为他们的父亲所从事的职业感到骄傲。 例 (2010·陕西,24)It is reported that many a new house________at present in the disaster area. A.are being built B.were being built C.was being built D.is being built 解析:句意:据报道,现在许多新房屋正在灾区兴建。由at present 可知本句要用现在进行时态,而当“many a+可数名词”作主语时,谓语动词要用单数形式,尽管含有复数意义。 |