Step I Lead-in
1. (have) your classmates finished his homework?
2. My friend and I (want) to play outside after watching TV.
3. (have) all of the cake been eaten?
Step II Subject-verb agreement
I语法一致原则
1. Between the two buildings (stand) a monument.
2. What he said (is/ are) right
3. What she left me (is/are) a few books.
4. Seeing (is/are) believing
5. To see (is/are) to believe.
6. Somebody (is/ are) using the phone.
7. Each of the books (cost) five yuan.
8. The students each (have) a copy of Jay’s new album.
9. The Greens (is / are) very fond of working on the farm.
10. Many a student (have/ has) passed the exam.
11. More than one person (is/ are) here.
II 意义一致原则
1. Three weeks (is/ are) allowed for making the necessary preparation.
2. Another five minutes (is/ are) enough.
e miles (is/ are) nothing.
family (is/ are)a happy one.
whole family (is/ are) watching TV.
police (is/ are) searching for the thief.
7. The population in China (is/ are) large.
8. 75% of the population in our class (is/ are) from countryside.
9. This glass works (be) set up in 1980.
10. These glass works (is/ are) near the railway station.
11. A sheep (is/ are)over there.
12. Some sheep (is/ are) over there.
13. Physics (is/ are) now taught in all schools.
old (is/ are) taken good care of in our country.
young (is/ are) required to respect the old.
16.“All ________ present and all _________ going on well.” Our monitor said.
A. is ; is B. are ; are C. are ; is D. is ; are
17. All of my classmates （like）music.
18. All of the water (is / are) gone.
8.相加原则
19. Walking and riding (is / are) good exercises.
20. A teacher and doctor (is / are) giving us a lecture.
21. A teacher and a doctor (is / are) giving us a lecture.
22. Every boy and girl (want) to go to the cinema.
23 No boy and no girl (is / are) allowed to swim in the lake.
a boy and many a girl (is / are) going to the zoo.
III就近原则
1. Tom or his brothers (is / are)waiting in the room.
2. Either you or he (is / are) to go.
3. There (is / are) an apple, two oranges and some bananas on the plate.
4. There (is / are) two oranges, an apple and some bananas on the plate.
5. John, together with his two friends, (was / were) at the party.
teacher as well as the students was reading in the library.
IV找真实主语
1. Lots of damage (was / were) caused by fire.
2. About three-fourths of the earth’s surface (is / are) covered with water.
3. Three-fifths of the workers here (is / are) women
4. A number of students (have/ has) gone home.
5. The number of pages in this book (is / are) two hundred.
6. A large amount of damage (was / were) done in a very short time.
7. Large amounts of money (was / were) spent on the bridge.
8. This kind of men (is / are) dangerous.
9. Men of this kind (is / are) dangerous.
A pair of shoes (was / were) just what he wanted
Shoes (was / were) just what he wanted .
He is one of the students who (have/ has) been to Beijing.
He is the only one of the students who (have/ has)been to Beijing.