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1、lPartAGRAMMARSubject-VerbAgreementSubject-verbagreementisaverycomplicatedissueanditisnotourintentiontocoverallthegroundinthisunit.Whatweattempttodohereistobringstudents'attentiontosomepointsparticularlytrickyandletthemlearnbypractice.Themethodweuseint
2、hegrammarsectionofthisbookisthediscoveryapproach--toletstudentsfindouttheirownanswers.Wehopethiscanraisestudents'interestinlearninggrammarandsharpentheirinductiveskills.Thequestionofsubject-verbagreementisverycomplicated.Generallyspeaking,therearethre
3、ebasicprinciples:grammaticalagreement,notionalagreement,andtheprincipleofproximity.Inhisunit,wearegoingtoapproachthisissueinfourcontexts:WhenthesubjectiscompoundReferencefortheClassroomActivitiesSummary:1.Acompoundsubjectwithandtakesapluralverbinmostc
4、ases,butwhenitexpressesasingularmeaningorwheneachofthesingularsubjectsisconsideredindividually,ittakesasingularverb.2.Afteracompoundsubjectwithor,nor,either…or,neither…nor,not…but,theverbagreesinnumberandpersonwiththenearerpartofthesubject.3.Interveni
5、ngphrasesorclausesnotintroducedbycoordinatingconjunctionsdonotaffectthenumberofaverb.Suchphrasesarenormallyintroducedbyprepositionsorprepositionalphrasessuchaswellas,asmuchas,ratherthan,alongwithinadditionto,togetherwith,with,plus,andincluding.Whenthe
6、subjectexpressesquantityReferencefortheClassroomActivitiesAllthesentencesarecorrect.Summary:1.Nominalphrasesoftime,money,weightandmeasurementnormallytakeasingularverb.2.Somewordsorphrases,suchasall,most,half,thelast,therest,takeasingularorpluralverb,d
7、ependingonthemeaningofthenounorpronounthatfollows.61.Phraseslikelotsof,heapsof,loadsoftakesingularorpluralverbsdependingontheformofthenounsthatfollow.2.Insentenceswithmorethanoneormanyamodifyingthesubjectnouns,theverbshouldtakeasingularformthoughitisp
8、luralinmeaning.Whenthesubjectisarelativepronoun,awhat-clause,orinthethere-bestructureReferencefortheClassroomActivities1).Hewasoneofthecandidateswhowereabletocarryouttheircampaignpledges.Hewastheonlyoneofthecandidateswhowasabletocarryouthiscam