集体名词用法详解与相关主谓一致.docVIP

集体名词作主语主谓一致　　1)通常作复数的集体名词　　集体名词，如：police, people, cattle, militia（民兵组织）, poultry（家禽）等，　　通常作复数，用复数动词。如：　　Domestic cattle provide us with milk, beef and hides.　　 2)通常作不可数名词的集体名词　　有些集体名词，如 machinery [m???i:n?ri], equipment, furniture, merchandise [?m?:t??ndaiz] （商品、货物）,通常作不可数名词，随后的动词用单数。 例如：All the machinery in the factory is made in China.　 　3)既可作单数也可作复数的集体名词　集体名词，如audience, committee（委员会）, class, crew（全体工作人员，全体船员）, family, public, government, council(议会、理事会）等，既可作单数，也可作复数用。 The city council is meeting to set its agenda. 练习： The class ________ (consist) twenty-five boys and twenty girls. The class ___________(do) experiments. B、由两部分组成的物质名称，如 trousers（裤子）, pants（裤子）, jeans, compasses（指南针）, glasses, shorts（短裤） 等做主语时，谓语用复数　　　　4)“a pair of, a large amount of, a committee of /a board of（一组） + 名词” 做主语，谓语用单数形式； 但“these (those, all, many, some) kinds/sorts/types/forms /portions of ，two pairs of, large amounts of, quantities of + 名词”做主语，谓语则用复数形式。 Eg. This kind of book is useful for us. Many kinds of shoes are on sale in that shop. A committee of five men and three women is to consider the matter. B: “a quantity of +名词, 分数、百分数”做主语，则谓语单复数由名词定 With more and more forests being destroyed, quantities of good earth are ( a large quantity of good earth_____) being washed away each year. What is worse, waste water and rubbishes poured into rivers, as well as oil and nuclear leak, cause huge damage to oceans. Thus, there _____ a small quantity of clear water left and there _____ a large quantity of sea animals dying of marine pollution. C: a number of , a variety of, a group of + 复数名词 + 复数谓语 the number of, the variety of + 复数名词+ 单数谓语 如： A number of passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 _____________ (lose ) contact, the number of China passengers ______ 153. 练习： This pair of trousers ______ mine. Here ______ some new pairs of shoes. He joins the team who ______ all famous footballers. A football team which _______ (keep) on training hard _____ more lik