(2)有些集合名词，如family, team等作主语时，如作为一个整体看待，谓语动词用单数;如指其中每个成员，则用复数。例如：

　　My family is big one.

　　My family are watching TV.

　　(3)不定代词由all, most, more, some, any, none作主语时，也要依这些代词表示的意义来决定谓语动词的单复数形式。如果代词代表复数可数名词，谓语动词用复数;如果代词代表单数可数名词或不可数名词，谓语动词用单数。例如：

　　All of the work has been finished.

　　All of the people have gone.

　　(4)疑问代词作主语时，其谓语动词也有两种情况：主语表示复数意义，谓语动词用复数;主语表示单数意义，则谓语动词用单数。例如：

　　Who is your brother?

　　Who are League members?

　　(5)“分数或百分数+of+名词”构成的词组作主语时，其谓语动词要以of后面的名词而定。名词是复数，谓语动词用复数：名词是单数，谓语动词用单数。例如：

　　It is said that 35 per cent of the doctors are women.

　　Three -fourths of the surface of the earth is sea.

　　(6)half, the rest等表示不定数量的名词作主语时，如果所指为复数意义，动词用复数;如果所指为单数意义，动词用单数。例如：

　　I have read a large part of the book, the rest is more difficult.

　　Only ten students attended the class because all the rest were off sick.

　　(7)由what 引导地主于从句作主语时，通常谓语动词用单数形式。但如果所指内容为复数意义时，谓语动词用复数形式。例如：

　　What she said is correct.

　　What she left me are a few old books.

　　(8)凡是以“定冠词+形容词(或分词)”作主语，往往根据意义一致的原则决定谓语动词的单复数形式。如果这种主语指的是一类人，谓语动词用复数;如果指的是一个人或抽象概念，谓语动词用单数形式。例如：

　　The sick have been cured and the lost have been found.

　　The dead is a famous person.

　　3. 邻近一致的原则

　　(1)由连词or, either……or, neither……nor, not only…but also,等连接的并列主语，如果一个是单数，一个是复数，则谓语动词按就近一致原则，与最靠近它的主语一致。例如：

　　Either you or I am right.

　　Neither the children nor the teacher knows anything about it.

　　(2)在“There be” 句型中,谓语动词和靠近的主语一致。

　　There are two apples and one egg in it.

　　(3)as well as 和名词连用时,谓语动词和第一个名词相一致。

　　He as well as I is responsible for it.

　　不但是我，他对这件事也有责任。

　　(4)以here开头的句子，其谓语动词和靠近的主语一致。

　　Here is a letter and some books for you.