This relationship usually follows the following principles:
1, the syntax is consistent.
The subject of a sentence is singular, and the predicate verb should also be singular
Form; The subject is plural and the predicate verb is plural.
China has a long history.
Many people are learning English now.
2. The meaning is the same.
Whether the predicate verb should be singular or plural depends on the subject.
The content expressed is singular or plural in meaning.
People in China are hardworking. ..
(1) uses an infinitive, gerund, clause or uncountable noun as the subject.
The predicate verb is singular.
Listening to tapes is helpful to our English study.
(2) Words representing time, distance, price, weight, numbers, mathematical operations, etc.
When a phrase or phrase is the subject, it means the whole concept, and the predicate verb is singular.
Ten years have passed.
10 km is a long way for him. He is too tired.
(3) two nouns connected by and, both ... and as the subject,
When expressing two different people or things, the predicate verb is plural.
When referring to the same person or thing, the predicate verb is singular.
The painter and writer came to our school.
(painter and writer, two people)
The painter and writer came to our school.
(painter and writer, same person)
(4) indefinite pronouns (someone, someone, something, anyone,
Anyone, anything, everyone, everyone, everything,
Nothing, no one, nothing, each, every) as the subject,
The predicate verb is singular.
Lucy, someone is waiting for you at the gate.
Is everyone here?
(5) Away from the principle: When the subject part contains with, together,
And, dream, except, but like (like) and other prepositions.
Or prepositional phrases, the predicate verb is singular.
Everyone has been to the Great Wall except Tom.
Li Lei and his friends play basketball every weekend.
(6) Proximity principle: neither … nor, either … or,
Not only … but also, no … but, there is a connection.
When there are two juxtaposed subjects, the predicate verb is consistent with its nearby subjects.
For example, you don't have her in your heart who likes listening to this song.
There is a knife and two pens in the box.
Note: when there is another of, there is another of as the subject, using the predicate verb.
Singular.
Neither of them is right.
(7) When the+adjective indicates a class of people, the predicate verb is in the plural form.
In this old man's home, the old man is well taken care of.
People's houses.
Young people are not allowed to dig their ears.
Pierside
(8) The plural form of (8)+surname indicates a family, and the predicate verb is plural.
The greens are going to Germany next week.
(9) Number ... "Number of people ...";
When you are the subject, the predicate verb is singular
Many … "many, many";
When you are the subject, the predicate verb is plural.
The number of workers in this factory is about 500.
Many workers in this factory are women.
(10) clothes, trousers, trousers, shorts, shoes, gloves …
When you are the subject, the predicate verb is plural.
But if there is a quantifier "one kind, one piece, one pair"
When modifying such words, we should look at the singular and plural numbers of quantifiers.
These shoes look good.
These shoes are very beautiful.
(1 1) Collective nouns: family, class, team, group, etc.
When expressing the whole concept, the predicate verb is singular.
When expressing members, the predicate verb is plural.
Class one is a very good class.
A basketball match is being held in Class One now.
(12)many a+ singular noun, "many"; More than one+singular noun,
"a lot"; A/an+ one or two singular nouns, "one or two ..."; As a theme,
The predicate verb is singular.
Many students passed the exam.
Many students passed the exam.
One or two boys are late for school.
When the (13) score is used as the subject, it depends on the singular and plural nouns.
If the modified noun is singular, the predicate verb is also singular.
If the modified noun is plural, the predicate verb is also plural.
Three quarters of the work is done by computers.
Half the students passed the exam.
14) Nominal possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, its,
When ours, theirs, and so on. When used as a subject, the number of predicate verbs depends on it.
Number of nouns after verbs, nouns after verbs are singular,
The predicate verb is singular; The noun aft that verb is plural,
Predicate verbs are plural. For example:
His is a new bike. His is a new bike.
Ours are old bicycles. Ours are some old bicycles.
(15) news (news), politics (politics), mathematics (mathematics),
Words like physics, though formally ending in s,
But the meaning is singular, so the predicate verb should be singular.
On the contrary, people, police and other words are singular in form.
But to express the plural meaning, the predicate verb should be plural.
Math is my favorite subject .. Math is my favorite subject.