高考英语简明语法手册：Grammar1：名词和存在句

高考英语简明语法手册：Grammar1：名词和存在句

Grammar1：名词和存在句 1.可数和不可数名词（countable and uncountable nouns） 个体名词和集合名词属可数名词，物质名词和抽象名词属不可数名词。 e. g．A boy and three dogs are in the park. Glass can be put in the windows. A stitch in time saves nine. Time and tide waits for no man. Happiness is God’s favor. 2.表示复数概念的名词如 people, police, cattle 的谓语动词只可用复数。 e.g. People are talking about the strange news. Police were helping to keep order. Cattle are quietly eating on the grassland. 3.单复数同形的名词:deer, sheep, fish e.g. A white deer and two dotted deer are playing together. Many black sheep and a grey sheep stay in the shed. Fish live in the seas and sheep live in the land. 4..存在句: there be---句型 表示存在的句型，谓语动词采取就近原则。 e. g. There is a language lab and three offices in this building. There are three offices and a language lab in this building. There was someone waiting for you outside. There were some women doctors in the hospital. Exercises. 1. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the given words. 1) They have collected a great deal of mathematical ___. (datum) 2) One of the ___ (passer-by) must have heard the scream from the block. 3) Red deer ___ (live) for about 12 years, though some have been known to live longer. 4) The committee ___ (have) met to reach a decision to deal with the accident. 5) We paid a visit to my ___ (grandmother), which was a comfortable small cottage. 6) The New York Times ___ (be) published daily. 7) We have had chicken, vegetables, ___ (fish, mutton) so far. 8) It is said that some ___ (woman, doctor) have been sent to Africa. 9) We tried to catch ___ (12 o’clock, train) that day. 10) I wrote a ___ (300, word) letter to my niece. 11) I need plenty of ___ (information) about the topic before I can start. 12) She always puts her best ___ (jewelry) in a safe-deposit box. 13) The cattle ___ (be) running. 14) Most stocks ___ (be) social nesting birds that build their nests in trees and on cliffs. 15) That fellow is clever; he has ___ (brain). 16) My father never gave me any ___ (advice). 17) We don’t have lots of ___ (homework) to do today, but we have lots of ___ (housework) to do. 18) They were late because of the heavy ___ (traffic). 19) He is one of the friends of my ___ (sister). 20) Recently, he has lost all his ___ (wage, saving) at cards. 2. Multiple choices. 1) There ___ no love lost between the couple. A. expects to be B. had expected to be C. seems to be D. be 2) ___ to be much chance for him escaping from the people’s trial. A. This doesn’t seem B. That doesn’t seem C. There doesn’t seem D. It doesn’t seem 3) There is ___ in asking him for help when he turns a deaf ear to you. A. of no use B. without any use C. of no good D. not much point 4) In that case it is impossible ___ an exit from the building. A. of there to be B. for there to be C. of there being D. for there being 5) There may ___ a play to put on, because many people are coming out of the theatre. A. have B. be C. have been D. have had 6) ___ nothing else to do, they went home. A. There to be B. There being C. There was D. There had been. 7) There ___ the question of how to put the plan into practice. A. arise B. arose C. appear D. appearing 8) There ___ a temple here. A. used to be B. is used to be C. was used to be D. used to being 9) There ___ said to be troops on the road. A. is B. are C. have D. has been 10) There is ___ to be some rain tonight. A. certain B. sure C. possibly D. surely