注意：名词作主语时，某些集体名词如果作为一个整体看待，谓语动词用单数形式；如果就其中一个个成员而言，谓语动词用复数
Audience, cla, club, committee, company, crew, crowd, enemy, government, group, party, public, team, staff, population, band The population of china is very large and eight percent of the population are farmers.某些集体名词people, police, cattle, militia只看作复数形式
当名词词组中心词为表示度量，距离，金额，时间，书名等复数名词时，将这些复数看作一个整体，谓语用单数形式
The selected poems of Libai was published long ago.anthology 不定代词each, every, no所修饰的名词，即 使以and或逗号连接成多个并列主语，谓语动词仍然用单数
Each boy and each girl wants to serve the people in the future .主语有more than one 或many a 构成，尽管从意义上讲是复数内容，但谓语动词仍然单数
Many a ship has been damaged in the storm More than one student has seen the film.This kind of book=books of this kind, this kind of companies = companies of this kind 前者用单数，后者用复数
用and和both ---and 连接的并列主语，谓语动词通常复数形式；但如果是同一个人，事物或概念，用单数，标志“and 后面没有冠词” Walking and riding are good exercises Plastics and rubber never rot A knife and fork is on the table Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit The girl’s teacher and friend is a young doctor Truth and honesty is the best policy.加减乘除时，如果用how much 谓语动词多用单数形式，如果用how many 谓语动词用复数形式 How many are two times five? How much is eight divided by two? 有“of”在内的数量，例如 plenty of, a large quantity of , a heap of, heaps of +名词，构成短语时，要看of后面的名词的形式， A quantity of blouses are on sale A large quantity of beer was sold.Lots of damage was caused by fire Three-fifths of the workers here are women About three fourths of the earth’s surface is covered with water.- 特别注意(large) quantities of 修饰可数或不可数名词，其短语作主语时，谓语动词一般用复数。Large amounts of 修饰不可数名词，其短语做主语时，谓语动词一般用复数
Quantities of food (nuts) were on the table Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.The number of +可数名词，the amount of +不可数名词，the quantity of +可数名词/不可数名词，构成短语，做主语，谓语用单数。 The quantity of books in the library is amazing The amount of money is great .along with, as well as, together with What 引导的主语，谓语动词通常单数，所指具体内容若是复数意义，谓语动词一般用复数 What we need is more time What we need are doctors.
