2) 计量的短语，标题或名字
如：two hours is too short for the visit.
Little women is a great novel.
3) 一个短语或从句
如：travelling to Pompeii is exciting.
That it keeps raining worries the tourists.
动词应是复数，如果主语是：
一个复数名词
如：both cities were very rich.
由and连接的两个或两个以上的单词或短语
如：the noodles and rice they offered on the plane were quite plain.
当主语是all of/ most of/ some of/ half of/ a part of +名词/代词，动词与名词或代词保持一致。 如：all of us have attended the lecture about Pompeii.
Most of the lecture was about how the ancient city was discovered.
当主语是集合名词，如band, crowd, class, dozen, family, public, team 时，如果名词指代的是集体，动词用单数；如果名词指代的是个体，动词用复数。
如：our team is very important to me.
Our team are now traveling to Xinjiang.
当主语是news, physics, mathematics, Aids时，动词用单数；当主语是goods, clothes, congratulations, earnings, remains, belongings 时，动词用复数。
如：the latest news is that the Loulan Beauty is being displayed in Shanghai.
All their belongings were destroyed in the earthquake.
当either…or…, neither…nor…, not only…but also…, not…but…,连接句子的主语时，动词采取就近原则。
如：either the team leader or the guides are looking after the students.
Either the guides or the team leader is looking after the students.
注：当主语是anybody/anyone/anything/everybody/everyone/everything/nobody/no one/nothing/somebody/someone/something/each/each one/either/neither/one时，动词用单数。
牛津高中英语－模块四
第一单元
一 直接引语和间接引语
1．我们用直接引语来阐述所说的话。如果我们把引语写下来，这些单词就会被放在引号 但是，我们通常更愿意用间接引语来阐述所说的话。
直接引语：She said, “China has been using PSAs to educate people.”
间接引语：She said China had been using PSAs to educate people.
2．我们可以通过把所说的话改成宾语从句或动词不定式短语的形式来把直接引语变成间接引语。
如：She said, “I m used to ads.”---- She said that she was used to ads.
“We must not fall for this kind of trick!” she said.-----
She warned us not to fall for that kind of trick.
