职称英语：分析句子好方法2

（不可数名词作主语)
　　用“and，，和“both … and”连接的并列主语，谓语动词多用复数形式，但并列主语如果指同一人同一事物或同一概念的时候，and后面的名词没有冠词，谓语动词用单数形式。如：
　　Both the man and his wife want to go to the cinema.
　　The poet and writer has come.
　　Bread and butter is daily food in the West.
　　主语是单数后面跟as well as，with，besides，along with，together with等，谓语动词仍用单数，如：
　　The teacher as well as the students likes this novel．
　　My sister，together with Jane and James，is gone．
　　一些有复数的名词，例如clothes．scissors，trousers，scales，spectacles等，作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式，但如在成双的东西的名词前面有apairo{时，其谓语动词用单数。如：
　　My trousers are being mended。
　　This pair of scissors belongs to me．
　　有些词尾有“s”的学科名称，做主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。如：
　　Mathematics is taught here．
　　②语言内容上的一致：主要指从意义上考虑主谓一致的问题。主语形式上为单数，但意义上为复数，谓语动词要用复数形式；主语形式上是复数，但意义上为单数，谓语动词用单数形式。
　　One hundred tons of water were used last week．(强调数量)
　　Ten minutes is enough．(强调整体)
　　News is travelling fast nowadays．
　　This glass works was built in 1985．
　　有复数意义的名词，如：police，militia，people，cattle等作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式。如：
　　The police are trying to catch the thief who has stolen a bike．
　　Cattle feed on grass．
　　有些集合名词，如；family，group，crowd，class，audience，government，committee。说话人把它们所表示的人或事当做整体看时，作单数看待，谓语动词用单数形式；说话者把它们表示的人或事物当做若干个体来看时，作复数看待，谓语动词也用复数形式。如：
　　My family is large．
　　My family are anxious about his safety．
　　③就近一致：由并列连词如：whether．．．or，not only．．．but also，either．．．or，neither．．．nor，or连接的并列主语，谓语动词与其最近的主语保持一致。如：
　　Either his friends or his brother is wrong．
　　Either his brother or his friends are wrong．
　　Not only you but also he is wrong．
　　Not only he but also you are wrong．