主謂一致常考難題：
Five minutes is enough to do this exercise.
Each boy and each girl wants to serve the people in future.
More than one student has seen the film.
Many a ship has been damaged in the storm.
More members than one are against your plan.
一些有兩個部分構成的名詞表示衣物或工具作主語時, 謂語通常用復數(shù)形式：glasses, clothes, trousers, shoes, compasses, chopsticks, scissors等。
但如果主語用a kind of , a pair of , a series of等加名詞構成時, 謂語動詞一般用單數(shù)形式。A pair of shoes was on the desk.
并列主語如果指的是同一個人、同一事物或同一概念時, 謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式, 這時and后面的名詞沒有冠詞。例如:
Truth and honesty is the best policy.
The girl’s teacher and friend is a young doctor.
To love and to be loved is the great happiness.
Going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit.
A knife and fork is on the table.
當主語后面跟有as well as, as much as , no less than, along with, with, like, rather than, together with, but, except, besides, including, in addition to等引導的詞組時, 其謂語動詞的單、復數(shù)按主語的單、復數(shù)而定。例如:
The teacher as well as the students was excited.
The room with its furniture was rented.
A (great) number of修飾可數(shù)復數(shù)名詞, 謂語動詞用復數(shù); a great deal of,a large amount of 修飾不可數(shù)名詞, 其短語作主語時, 謂語動詞用單數(shù)。
關系代詞who, that, which等在定語從句中作主語時, 其謂語動詞的數(shù)應與句中先行詞的數(shù)一致。例如:
Those who want to go please sign your names here.
Some of the energy that is used by man comes from the sun.
季節(jié)、月份、星期、節(jié)日、假日、一日三餐、學科名稱，球類、棋類名詞名稱前一般不加冠詞。
1/2 one(a) half 1/4 one(a) quarter
形容詞的順序：
系動詞be，grow，get，become，feel，appear，prove，seem，look，keep，smell，taste，sound，turn，remain限定詞+數(shù)量形容詞(序數(shù)詞在前，基數(shù)詞在后)+性狀形容詞+大小、長短、高低等形體+新舊+顏色+國藉+材料
Those three beautiful large square old brown wood table
某些以a-開首的形容詞例如：afraid，alike，alone，asleep，awake, alive 等只能作表語,不能作定語。
某些以-ly結尾的詞是形容詞而不是副詞：friendly，lively， lovely，lonely，likely，deadly，silly，orderly, timely等。
1)close接近地 closely仔細地，密切地
2)free 免費地 freely自由地,無拘束地
3)hard努力地 hardly幾乎不
4)late 晚，遲 lately 近來
5)most 極,非常 mostly主要地
6)wide廣闊地，充分地 widely廣泛地
7)high高 highly高度地，非常地
8)deep深，遲 deeply抽象意義的“深”
9)loud大聲地 loudly大聲地(含有喧鬧的意思)
10)near鄰近 nearly幾乎
bad/ill,badly worse worst little less least
表示一方不及另一方時，用“less+原級+than”的結構表示：This room is less beautiful than that one.
表示一方超過另一方的程度或數(shù)量時，可在比較級前加表示程度的狀語，如：even，a lot，a bit，a little，still，much，far, yet, by far等修飾：He works even harder than before.
注意:by far 通常用于強調最高級。用于比較級時,一般放在比較級的后面, 如放在前面,應在二者中間加“the”。
He is taller by far than his brother.
He is by far the taller of the two brothers.
某些以-or結尾的形容詞進行比較時，用to代替than。superior，junior，senior等。
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