Section_ⅢGrammar-_主谓一致
语法图解
探究发现
①Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.
②Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.
③Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off.
④Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right.
⑤Ten hours has passed since I came here.
[我的发现]
(1)句①中group强调成员,故其后谓语动词用复数形式;句③中的family和句④中的group强调整体,故其后谓语动词用单数形式。
(2)句②中的主语为动名词短语,故其谓语动词使用第三人称单数形式。
(3)表示时间、距离、金额、度量衡等名词作主语时,常表示一个整体概念,谓语动词用单数形式,如句⑤。
谓语动词与主语必须在人称和数上保持一致,这叫主谓一致。主谓一致的应用主要有以下几种情况:
一、名词作主语
主语 谓语动词 可数名词单数或不可数名词 单数 可数名词复数 复数 只表示复数意义的集体名词people, police, cattle等 复数