The population of Canada is about 29 million．
About eighty percent of the population of this country are peasants． 2）集合名词作主语，如果表示整体概念，谓语动词用单数形式；如表示成员则用复数。常见的这部分名词有：army，audience，class，club，committee，company，crowd，family，group，government，organization，party，team等。
Our football team is playing well.
Our football team are having baths and are then coming back here for supper.
3）a number of／a variety of／varieties of+可数名词复数; “the majority of+复数名词” 作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式
the number of(表数目)和the variety of(表种类)等+可数名词 作主语时，谓语动词用单数。
A number of new houses have been built there． There are a variety of goods on sale in the shop．
The number of the people who know the secret is very limited． The variety of goods on sale in the shop is surprising． 4) “a large amount of+不可数名词”作主语，谓语用单数
“large amounts of+不可数名词”作主语，谓语用复数 “a large quantity of+不可数名词”作主语，谓语用单数
“a large quantity of+复数名词”作主语，谓语常用复数
“large quantities of+不可数名词／复数名词”作主语，谓语用复数
“a good／great deal of+不可数名词”作主语，谓语用单数 A large amount of clean water is wasted every day．
Vast amounts of money are being invested in the local market． Large quantities of beer are consumed in the city every year．
A large quantity of money was spent on the bridge．
“a total of+复数名词”作主语与复数动词连用，意思是“总共有……” “the total of+复数名词”作主语与单数动词连用，意思是“……的总数”。 4) 单复数同形的名词作主语，要根据上下文的意义以及修饰这些词的词来确定其谓语形式。常见的这部分名词有aircraft，crossroads，deer，fish，headquarters。means，series，sheep，species，works等。如： The crossroads is／are dangerous． Every means has been tried．
All possible means have been tried．
A steel works has just been built there．
5）当主语后面跟有with，together with，along with，accompanied by，like，in addition to，as well as，as much as，more than，rather than，no less than，except，but，besides，including等连接的词组时，其谓语动词的单复数不受这些词语的影响。如：
The rock singer，along with his bodyguard，was rushed away from the theater．
Mr. Robbins，accompanied by his wife and children，is arriving tonight．
No one but your parents was there then．
Tom，together with Mary and Alice，is going to swim this afternoon. 6）the + adj./ v-ed 表示某类人作主语时，谓语动词用复数形式
the + adj. 表示某类事物或表示某一类抽象概念作主语时，谓语动词用单数形式。
The poor live a hard life．
The beautiful lives forever．
7) there be结构中的主谓一致关系，谓语动词通常和最邻近的那个主语一致。 There are four chairs and a table in the room． 8) “a／an+单数名词+or two”作主语时，谓语动词用单数。如： “one or two+复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词用复数。如：
A student or two has failed the exam．一两个学生考试不及格。
One or two students were planting trees yesterday afternoon．昨天下午有一两个学生在植树。
9）在主语和谓语倒装的句子中，动词的数应和它后面的主语的数一致。 On the wall are some famous paintings．
Between the two windows hangs a picture．
10）在“It + be+被强调部分+that／who...”结构中，be用单数形式is或was，如被强调部分是主语，that／who后的谓语与被强调部分的人称、数保持一致。 It is I who am a student．
It is they who have worked there for five years．
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