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4．当“more than one + 单数名词”做主语时，谓语动词一般用单数。例如： More than one person has voted against him. 不止一人投票反对他。 当“more + 复数名词 + than one”做主语时，谓语动词用复数。例如： More persons than one have been shot. 不止一人被枪杀了。 当“more than + 复数名词” 做主语时，谓语动词一般用复数。例如： More than two hundred people have attended the meeting. 两百多人出席了会议。 5．作为整体看待的表示时间、金钱、距离、体积等名词词组做主语时，谓语动词常用单数。例如： Eight hours sleep is enough. 每天有八小时的睡眠就足够了。 如果主语表示具体的、个别的单位，谓语动词用复数。例如： Their last four years have been full of surprise. 过去的四年中，他们的生活充满了惊奇 有些以 –ics 结尾的名词，如 ethics（民族学）, politics（政治学）, statistics（统计学）, 等用来表示“学科领域”时，谓语动词用单数；用来表示“具体行为”、“观点”、“数字”时，谓语动词用复数。例如： Politics seems to be difficult to him. 政治在他看来似乎很难。 The statistics in that report are not accurate. 那份报告中的统计数字不精确。 Lecture 3: Subject-verb Concord (II) II. The Gist of the Chapter This lecture deals with problems of concord with a coordinate construction(并列结构）, a quantitative expression（表示数量的名词词组）, or a nominal clause （名词性分句）. as subject III. Learning Points: 1．and / both… and Two girls and three boys_ from Beijing.(is/are) are Both my mother and father_ in good health. (is/are) are 特殊情况： ①无论定冠词还是不定冠词之后接两个名词时，谓语须用单数： The secretary and treasurer is absent. 出纳员 She is a novelist and playwright. 剧作家 ②由and 连接的each, every, many a 等限定词，谓语须用单数： Every boy and every girl in the room is entitled to high praise.受到高度赞扬 ③当what 连接的两个主语从句时，谓语须用复数： What I say and think are no business of yours.我所说的和想的与你无关 2．按“就近原则”处理的并列结构有： or / nor： You or he is needed for this job. either…or: Either you or he finishes reading the book. Either he or you finish reading the book. neither…nor: Neither the doctors nor the nurse is here. Neither the nurse nor the doctors are here. not only…but also: Not only the students but also the teacher has come. Not only the teacher but also the students have come. 3. 谓语用单数的情况有： ①将数量概念视为整体： Six months is too short a time, he warned. Five hours is needed to complete the outline. ②“one in / one out of + 复数名词”： One in ten stud