英语与基础_Basic_English_Lecture_9_Subject_Verb_Agreement_Gwyn_.pptVIP

Lecture 9;What is Preposition?;Basically, we have 4 common categories of prepositions:;Preposition of Place or Position;Prepositions of place; at;Preposition of Direction;Consider the following…;Preposition of Time;Preposition of time (con’t); at;Some special cases;Other Prepositions;How to form phrasal verb? VERB + PREPOSITION [put up, take over] Certain verbs are used with specific prepositions to convey certain meanings. A phrasal verb sometimes carries more than one meaning. [e.g. take off] Some verbs can form up to 10 or more phrasal verbs using different prepositions. [e.g. put];LECTURE 9 : SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT; e.g. The rich man donates money to charity. His wife does the same thing too. e.g. Malaysians are caring people. They donate generously to the tsunami victims. .;2a) When 2 or more singular subjects  are joined by the conjunction  ‘and’ a plural verb is used;2b) Phrases such as “together with, as well as”, “accompanied by” and “along with” do not affect the actual number of the subject before them. In this case ,the verb will agree with the main subject before these phrases.;Exercise 1 1.The hungry farmer sell/sells all his goats so that his children do/does not have to starve. 2.Every year towns near the Perak river is/are affected by the floods and the villagers move/moves to higher grounds. Last year an old man trapped in his house was/were rescued by the police. 3. The captain and his officers steer/steers the Titanic away from the rocks; but unfortunately the ship is/are hit by a floating iceberg. The captain advise/advises his crew to abandon the ship. ;3 a) A singular verb is used with a subject after “neither” and “either” ;4.a) The indefinite pronouns such as “anyone” “anybody”, “someone”, “ somebody”, “none”, “anything”, “everybody”, “every one”, “no one” , “nobody”, “nothing” require singular verbs;4.b)When subjects follow “each” , “every” and “one of”, a singular verb is used;4.c) The indefinite pro