Subject-verb Agreement

主谓一致

Today’s proverb

Be 动词基本用法口诀

“我”用“ am”，“你”用“ are”，

“is”用于“她”、“他”、“它”，

复数全多要用“ are”。

The boy ___ diving.

They ____ diving.

Both Jack and Tim ___ diving.

All of them ____ diving.

Neither Jack nor Tim ___ walking.

is

are

are

is

are

Fill in the blanks with “be”:

Let’s think and do.

Bob

Bob _____ a worker.is

Mike

Mike and Bob _____ workers.are

Both Mike and Bob ____workers.are

Neither Mike nor Bob ___a teacher.is

Bill

All of them ______ workers.are

Can you find out the rule between subjects and verbs? 英语句子中的主语与谓语动词应在

人称和数上保持一致——

三原则

主谓一致语法一致 :

意义一致：

就近一致：

单单复复形单意复复形复意单单

Not only…but also等

people police

newsmaths

Find the mistake in each sentence.1.The police is comimg soon.

2.The sad news make me cry.

3.My shoes is new .

4.The rich is going to be looked after well.

5.This pair of glasses are mine.

6.The first class begin at eight every morning.

Man can’t be perfect.

makes

are

are

are

is

begins

1.Behind the house _______(be)some trees.

2.Every student and every teacher _______(come)

to school on time in the morning.

3.No man and no woman ______(like) these shoes.

4.He or she ______(have) gone there.

5.What he said________(sound) reasonable.

6. “I”____(be) the ninth letter.

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs.

are

comes

likes

has

sounds

is

Rules1. the + adj.表示一类人作主语时，谓语动词用 ． 2. trousers ,shoes ,glasses, socks单独作主语，谓语用＿＿。与 a pair of 连用用＿＿＿。3. school, class ,family， team 指人用 ，指整体用 。4.主语后跟 with, together with, like, but, except, as well as等，谓语按 而定。5主语后介语丢一边 ,时间、距离、金钱再多也是 。6．动名词、不定式用 定语从句 是决策。7．几分之几见主语，但 one and a half 后名词用复数谓语用 。8．别忘倒装向 看。

复数

复数 单数复数

单数

主语单数

单数 先行词

单数后

1.Our class are going to hike next week

Our class are big and clean .

2.A speaker and writer does exercise every day.

A speaker and a writer does exercise every day.

3.A number of Chinese are learning English.

The number of the students are forty.

哪一句表达正确？

给句子填上 is/am/are

1.There _____some milk and some bottles on the table.

2.Neither Jim nor Mary ______ right.

3.Either you or I_______going to work there.

4.Not only the students but also their teacher ____happy.

5.There ______some sheep and a child over there.

is

is

am

is

are

Think carefully

There be _ A _ and _ B _

Either _A_ or_ B _

Neither_A_nor_B_

Not only_A_but also_B_

动词

Thinking makes

you clever.

就近原则

1. This is my twin sister Lucy. Both she and I_____ good at drawing.A. am B. is C. are D. be

2. Nobody but Sam and John ______ in the room. A. are B. had been C. were D. is

3. My family _____ having supper when suddenly the bell rang. A. is B. was C. are D. were

4. Swimming in the pool with friends _____ very interesting.

A. has B. have C. is D. are

5. A number of children _____ for the teacher to come now.

A. is waiting B. are waiting C. waits D. waited

Practice makes perfect.中考练兵：C

D

D

C

B

6. Two hours _____ not long enough for this test.A. has B. is C. are D. have

7. ---Have you got some water to drink? ---Here you are. There___ still some in the bottle. A. are B. was C. were D. is8.Neither he nor I____ from Canada. We are from Austraila. A. is B. am C. are D. be

9. Not only Tom but also Alice and Mary _____ busy.

A. has B. have C. is D. are

10. The news _____ exciting. We got excited at it.

A. is B. are C. was D. were

Practice makes perfect.中考练兵：B

D

B

D

A

Help Tom complete the introduction.

My name _____Tom. My hobbies _____ reading, listening to music, sports and watching movies. what I like best ____ watching movies. It _____twenty years since I began teaching. Twenty years ______ a long time. To be a teacher _____ a kind of happiness. My students _______ (like) me and their parents ________ (respect) me, which________ (make) me feel so happy. Having classes always _________(make) me feel so good. Maths__________ really hard. In my class many students _____poor in maths.

is are

isis

isis like

respectmakes

makesis

are

Let’s try.

Homework

1.Review what we’ve learnt today.

2.Finish the exercise9(Subject-verb agreement).

Thank you

for listening!