Two-thirds of the people present are against the plan. 到场的三分之二的人都反对这个计划。
10、定语从句谓语动词的单复数形式应与先行词一致。例如:
He is one of the men who were chosen to represent the group.
“Keep cool” is the first of the rules that are to be remembered in an accident.
“镇静”是事故发生时应当牢记的第一条原则。
二、概念一致(语言内容上一致)
1、有些集合名词如crowd, family, team, orchestra(管弦乐队), group, government, committee, class, school, union, firm, staff, public等,它们作主语时,谓语动词的数要根据语言内容而定。如果它们作为一个集体单位时,动词用单数形式,如就其中的各个成员来说,则谓语用复数形式。例如:
His family is going to move. 他准备搬家。 His family are very well. 他家人身体都好。
2、有些表示总体意义的名词,形式上是单数,而意义上却是复数,谓语动词要用复数形式,如people, police, militia, cattle, poultry(家禽)等。例如:
The police are searching for a tall dark man with a beard.
3、有些名词形式上是复数,而意义上却是单数。如news, means, works.还有许多以ics结尾的学科名称,如economics, physics, mechanics, politics等,它们作主语时,谓语动词要用单数形式。例如:
Politics is a complicated business. 政治学是一门复杂的东西。
Here is the news. 下面播送新闻。
4、用and连接的单数主语,前面有each, every, many a, no等修饰时,谓语动词要用单数形式。复数主语与each连用时,应不受each的影响,谓语动词仍用复数形式。例如:
Every boy and girl is treated in the same way. 每个男孩、女孩都是以同样的方式对待的。
Many a boy and many a girl has seen it. 很多姑娘小伙子都见过。
The old workers and the young each have their own tools.青老年工人都各自有自己的工具。
5、表示重量、度量、衡量、价值的复数名词作主语,谓语动词常用单数形式。例如:
Twenty miles is a long way to walk. 二十里地可是个不近的路程。
Three pints isn t enough to get me drunk. 三品脱还不至于把我灌醉。
the +形容词作主语时,如主语指的是一类人,谓语动词用复数形式;如果指的是单个人或抽象概念,谓语动词用单数形式。例如:
The departed was a good friend of his. 死者是他的一位好友。
三、毗邻一致(就近原则)
1、由连词or, neither…or, either…or, not only … also, nor等连接的并列主语,谓语动词的单复数形式按毗邻一致的原则,与贴近它的主语一致。例如:
Either you or he is no telling the truth. 不是你就是他没讲真话。
Not only the switches but also the old wiring has been changed.
不仅开关,连那些老化了电路都已经更换了。
2、在there be 的结构中,谓语动词的单复数形式一般也采取就近原则。例如:
There is a desk and four benches in the office. 办公室有一张桌子,四条长凳。
There are two chairs and a desk in the office. 办公室有两把椅子一张桌子。
四、代词的指代一致
指代一致是指句中的代词应该在人称、数、性等方面与所指的词保持一致。也是考试中的一个常考点。
1、当everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody等作主语时,相应的代词一般采用单数形式。例如:

