(3)不定代词由all, most, more, some, any, none作主语时，也要依这些代词表示的意义来决定谓语动词的单复数形式。如果代词代表复数可数名词，谓语动词用复数;如果代词代表单数可数名词或不可数名词，谓语动词用单数。例如：

All of the work has been finished.

All of the people have gone.

(4)疑问代词作主语时，其谓语动词也有两种情况：主语表示复数意义，谓语动词用复数;主语表示单数意义，则谓语动词用单数。例如：

Who is your brother?

Who are League members?

(5)“分数或百分数+of+名词”构成的词组作主语时，其谓语动词要以of后面的名词而定。名词是复数，谓语动词用复数：名词是单数，谓语动词用单数。例如：

It is said that 35 per cent of the doctors are women.

Three –fourths of the surface of the earth is sea.

(6)half, the rest等表示不定数量的名词作主语时，如果所指为复数意义，动词用复数;如果所指为单数意义，动词用单数。例如：

I have read a large part of the book, the rest is more difficult.

Only ten students attended the class because all the rest were off sick.

(7)由what 引导地主于从句作主语时，通常谓语动词用单数形式。但如果所指内容为复数意义时，谓语动词用复数形式。例如：

What she said is correct.

What she left me are a few old books.

(8)凡是以“定冠词+形容词(或分词)”作主语，往往根据意义一致的原则决定谓语动词的单复数形式。如果这种主语指的是一类人，谓语动词用复数;如果指的是一个人或抽象概念，谓语动词用单数形式。例如：

The sick have been cured and the lost have been found.

The dead is a famous person.

3. 邻近一致的原则

(1)由连词or, either……or, neither……nor,  not only…but also,等连接的并列主语，如果一个是单数，一个是复数，则谓语动词按就近一致原则，与最靠近它的主语一致。例如：

Either you or I am right.

Neither the children nor the teacher knows anything about it.

(2)在“There be” 句型中,谓语动词和靠近的主语一致。

There are two apples and one egg in it.

(3)as well as 和名词连用时,谓语动词和第一个名词相一致。

He as well as I is responsible for it.

不但是我，他对这件事也有责任。

(4)以here开头的句子，其谓语动词和靠近的主语一致。

Here is a letter and some books for you.

【实例解析】

1. (2004年天津市中考试题)

How time flies! Ten years ________ passed.

A. have  B. has  C. is  D. are

答案：B。该题考查的是主谓一致。Ten years通常被看作是一个时间整体，谓语动词用单数形式。

2. (2004年南通市中考试题)

Not only his parents but also his brother ________ to the Summer Palace. They haven’t been back.

A. have been  B. have gone  C. has been  D. has gone

答案：D。该题考查的是主谓一致。如果由not only…but also连接两个并列主语，其谓语动词同相邻的主语保持一致，谓语动词应用单数形式。又因为他们还都没有回来，所以用has gone而不用has been。

3. (2004年吉林市中考试题)

Neither my father ________ going to see the patient.

A. nor I am               B. nor I are

C. or me are               D. or me is

答案：A。该题考查的是主谓一致。Neither…nor是一组连词，可连接连个并列主语，其谓语动词应同靠近的主语I保持一致, 因此应选A。

4. (2004年包头市中考试题)

Look! There _______ playing with the tourists on Yinhe Square.

A. are a number of deer          B. are a number of deers

C. is a number of deer           D. is a number of deers

答案：A。该题考查的是主谓一致。这个句子的主语是a number of deer, 是个复数概念，因此谓语动词应用复数形式。(deer单复数相同)

【中考演练】

一. 选择填空

1. They said the eighteenth and last lesson _______ quite easy.

A. is  B. was  C. are  D. were

2. ---When are you going to Kumming for your holidays?

---I haven’t decided. ______ this Sunday ______ next Sunday is OK.

A. Both; and  B. Either; or  C. Neither; nor  D. Not only; but also

3. ______ Helen ______ Joan speaks beautiful Chinese after they came to China.

A. Neither; nor  B. Not only; but also  C. Both; and  D. A and B

4. _______ of them has his own opinion.

A. Both  B. Some  C. Every  D. Each

5. Are there any _______ on the farm?

A. horse  B. duck  C. chicken  D. sheep