科技英语写作常见语法错误

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1、科技英语写作常见语法错误Subject-VerbAgreementsRestrictiveandNonrestrictiveClausesDanglingModifiers（垂悬修饰语）AwkwardOmissionsofVerbsandAuxiliaryVerbsSubject-VerbAgreements例1Applicationofthistechniquetostudiesonphytoplanktonbiomassanditsenvironmentsaredescribed.[说明]Thesubjectis“application”,w

2、hichissingular.Applicationofthistechniqueto…isdescribed.例2GrowthandisolationofM13viruswasdescribed→GrowthandisolationofM13virusweredescribed.ExceptionAsubjectthatispluralinformbutsingularineffecttakesasingularverb.例3Thenameandaddressofeachcontributorisgivenonthetitlepage.例4Re

3、searchanddevelopmentisattractingagrowingnumberofyoungscientists.However,whentwoormoresubjectsarejoinedby“or”,theverbtakesthenumberoftheclosestsubject.Applicationoruseswerenoted.Usesorapplicationwasnoted.Collectivenounstakeasingularverbwhenthegroupasawholeismeant,theytakeaplur

4、alverbwhenindividualsofthegrouparemeant.Theseriesisarrangedinorderofdecreasingsize.[说明]Referstotheseriesasaunit.Aseriesofcompoundswereobtained.[说明]Referstoeachcompound.Experimentaldatathatweobtainedarecomparedwithpreviouslyreportedresults.[说明]Referstothedataasindividualresult

5、s.Afterthedataaredistributed,wecanmeettodiscussthem.→Afterthedataisdistributed,wecanmeettodiscussit.[说明]Referstothewholecollectionofdataasoneunit.Noneofthesampleswassoluble.→Noneofthesamplesweresoluble.[说明]Referstoindividuals.Thisgroupofworkersarewellawareoftheirresponsibilit

6、ies.→Thisgroupofworkersiswellawareofitsresponsibilities.[说明]Referstothegroupasaunit.Unitsofmeasurementaretreatedascollectivenounsandthereforetakeasingularsubject.Themixturewasstirred,and5mLofdiluentwereadded.→Themixturewasstirred,and5mLofdiluentwasadded.FivegramsofNaClwereadd

7、edtothesolution.→FivegramsofNaClwasaddedtothesolution.Threeweeksareneededtocompletetheexperiment.→Threeweeksisneededtocompletetheexperiment.Compoundsubjectscontainingthewords“each”,“every”,and“everybody”maytakesingularverbs.Eachflaskandeachholderwassterilizedbeforeuse.Bothcom

8、ponentsofthecompoundsubjectmustcontainthewordsinquestion.Otherwise,t