1.一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……

1、请看一些例句：

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.

2、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.

3、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.

4、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.

5、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 6、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

7、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。

8、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。