主語是單數后面跟as well as，with，besides，along with，together with等，謂語動詞仍用單數，如：

　　The teacher as well as the students likes this novel.

　　My sister，together with Jane and James，is gone.

　　一些有復數的名詞，例如clothes.scissors，trousers，scales，spectacles等，作主語時，謂語動詞用復數形式，但如在成雙的東西的名詞前面有apairo{時，其謂語動詞用單數。如：

　　My trousers are being mended.

　　This pair of scissors belongs to me.

　　有些詞尾有“s”的學科名稱，做主語時，謂語動詞用單數形式。如：

　　Mathematics is taught here.

　�、谡Z言內容上的一致：主要指從意義上考慮主謂一致的問題。主語形式上為單數，但意義上為復數，謂語動詞要用復數形式；主語形式上是復數，但意義上為單數，謂語動詞用單數形式。

　　One hundred tons of　water were used last week.（強調數量）

　　Ten minutes is enough.（強調整體）

　　News is travelling fast nowadays.

　　This glass works was built in 1985.

　　有復數意義的名詞，如：police，militia，people，cattle等作主語時，謂語動詞用復數形式。如：

　　The police are trying to catch the thief who has stolen a bike.

　　Cattle feed on grass.

　　有些集合名詞，如；family，group，crowd，class，audience，government，committee.說話人把它們所表示的人或事當做整體看時，作單數看待，謂語動詞用單數形式；說話者把它們表示的人或事物當做若干個體來看時，作復數看待，謂語動詞也用復數形式。如：

　　My family is large.

　　My family are anxious about his safety.

　　③就近一致：由并列連詞如：whether……or，not only……but also，either……or，neither……nor，or連接的并列主語，謂語動詞與其最近的主語保持一致。如：

　　Either his friends or his brother is wrong.

　　Either his brother or his friends are wrong.

　　Not only you but also he is wrong.

　　Not only he but also you are wrong.

　　3.動賓關系：在確認動詞性質后，要注意審查其后面的賓語。要特別注意賓語應該用動詞不定式還是應該用動名詞；賓語補足語是應該帶to還是不應該帶to;動詞后帶的動名詞或動詞不定式的意義基本相同還是意義不同。如：

　　I dont remember.……him at the last meeting.

　　A.to have seen　B.see　C.to see　D.seeing

　　答案D

　　This house needs……，but we plan to wait until next summer

　　to do it.

　　A.to paint　B.painted　C.painting　D.being painted

　　答案C

　　am sorry……so long.

　　A.to have kept you waiting

　　B.keep you waiting

　　C.to keep you wait

　　D.keeping you wait