1.表示时间，重量，数目，价格，长度，数学运算等的词或短语作主语时，尽管他们是复数形式，但如果把这些复数形式的词或短语看作是一个整体，谓语动词用单数形式。
Two months is quite a long time. Twenty dollars is enough.
2.动词不定式，动名词，从句或不可数名词作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
To see is to believe. It is not easy to master a foreign language.
3.由and连接两个成分作主语时，要根据其表示的意义来决定谓语动词的形式。如果其表示的是一个整体的概念或指的是同一事物，谓语动词用单数，如果其表示的是两个不同的对象时，谓语动词用复数。
The writer and the teacher are coming.
The poet and teacher is one of my friends.
4.集合名词people，police一般看作复数意义，其谓语动词用复数。另外一些集合名词family，enemy，class，army等作主语时，谓语动词是用单数还是复数，要根据这些词在句中的实际含义而定。当他们表示的是整体意义时，谓语用单数；当他们强调个体成员时，谓语动词用复数形式。
In, people eat fish and chips.
The Chinese people(民族)is a great people.
5.名词性物主代词mine，yours，his，hers， its，ours，theirs等作主语时，谓语动词的数取决于该代词所表示的意义是单数还是复数。
His parents are young, but mine are old.
6.以s结尾的名词本身不表示复数意义时，谓语动词通常用单数形式，如news，physics，politics，maths等。
No news is good news. Physics is the most difficult subject for him.
7.由or，either…or…，neither…nor…，not only…but also…等词连接名词或代词作主语时，谓语动词的数和最接近的主语一致。
Neither you nor Li Hua has been to Shanghai before.
8.以there，here开头的句子，若主语不止一个，其谓语动词的形式和邻近的那个主语一致。
There is a table and four chairs in the room.
Here are some books and paper for you.
9.trousers，clothes，glasses，compasses，chopsticks等作主语时，谓语动词用复数。但如果前面有a pair of短语时，谓语动词用单数。
Jim’s trousers are brown. The pair of glasses is Mr. Green’s.
10.由“a lot of/lots of/plenty of+名词”或“分数+名词”作主语时，谓语动词的单复数根据名词的单复数而定。
A lot of people have been to London.
Three-fifths of the water is dirty.
11.“a number of +复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用复数；“the number of+复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
A great number of birds fly to the south in winter.
The number of lions does not change much if people leave things as they are.
12.代词something，anything，nothing，everyone，anybody，nobody，each，neither，either，little，much，one等作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。
Neither of us is a boy。
Each of them has an English dictionary。
One of the students was late for school。
13.All，some none，most，any等代词作主语时，若其指复数概念，谓语动词用复数形式；若其指单数形式，则谓语动词用单数形式。
Not all work is difficult。
Not all the students are here。
14.有些形容词前面加上定冠词the，如the poor，the old，the yong，the rich，the dying等用来表示一类人时，主语为复数意义，谓语动词用复数。
The old are good taken care of。
15.Many a意为“许多”，但因后面跟的是单数名词，谓语动词应用单数形式。
Many a student has passed the exam。
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