Here are some new pairs of shoes.

My new pair of socks is on the bed.

2. 意义一致的原则

（1）表时间、距离、价格、度量衡等的名词作主语时，谓语动词通常用单数。例如：

Twenty years is not a long time.

Ten dollars is too dear.

（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(就近一致)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：