主谓一致常考难题：

Five minutes is enough to do this exercise.

Each boy and each girl wants to serve the people in future.

More than one student has seen the film.

Many a ship has been damaged in the storm.

More members than one are against your plan.

一些有两个部分构成的名词表示衣物或工具作主语时, 谓语通常用复数形式：glasses, clothes, trousers, shoes, compasses, chopsticks, scissors等。

但如果主语用a kind of , a pair of , a series of等加名词构成时, 谓语动词一般用单数形式。A pair of shoes was on the desk.

并列主语如果指的是同一个人、同一事物或同一概念时, 谓语动词用单数形式, 这时and后面的名词没有冠词。例如:

Truth and honesty is the best policy.

The girl’s teacher and friend is a young doctor.

To love and to be loved is the great happiness.

Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit.

A knife and fork is on the table.

当主语后面跟有as well as, as much as , no less than, along with, with, like, rather than, together with, but, except, besides, including, in addition to等引导的词组时, 其谓语动词的单、复数按主语的单、复数而定。例如:

The teacher as well as the students was excited.

The room with its furniture was rented.

A (great) number of修饰可数复数名词, 谓语动词用复数; a great deal of,a large amount of 修饰不可数名词, 其短语作主语时, 谓语动词用单数。

关系代词who, that, which等在定语从句中作主语时, 其谓语动词的数应与句中先行词的数一致。例如:

Those who want to go please sign your names here.

Some of the energy that is used by man comes from the sun.

季节、月份、星期、节日、假日、一日三餐、学科名称，球类、棋类名词名称前一般不加冠词。

1/2 one(a) half 1/4 one(a) quarter

形容词的顺序：

系动词be，grow，get，become，feel，appear，prove，seem，look，keep，smell，taste，sound，turn，remain限定词+数量形容词(序数词在前，基数词在后)+性状形容词+大小、长短、高低等形体+新旧+颜色+国藉+材料

Those three beautiful large square old brown wood table

某些以a-开首的形容词例如：afraid，alike，alone，asleep，awake, alive 等只能作表语,不能作定语。

某些以-ly结尾的词是形容词而不是副词：friendly，lively， lovely，lonely，likely，deadly，silly，orderly, timely等。

1)close接近地 closely仔细地，密切地

2)free 免费地 freely自由地,无拘束地

3)hard努力地 hardly几乎不

4)late 晚，迟 lately 近来

5)most 极,非常 mostly主要地

6)wide广阔地，充分地 widely广泛地

7)high高 highly高度地，非常地

8)deep深，迟 deeply抽象意义的“深”

9)loud大声地 loudly大声地(含有喧闹的意思)

10)near邻近 nearly几乎

bad/ill,badly worse worst little less least

表示一方不及另一方时，用“less+原级+than”的结构表示：This room is less beautiful than that one.

表示一方超过另一方的程度或数量时，可在比较级前加表示程度的状语，如：even，a lot，a bit，a little，still，much，far, yet, by far等修饰：He works even harder than before.

注意:by far 通常用于强调最高级。用于比较级时,一般放在比较级的后面, 如放在前面,应在二者中间加“the”。

He is taller by far than his brother.

He is by far the taller of the two brothers.

某些以-or结尾的形容词进行比较时，用to代替than。superior，junior，senior等。