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你以为Tik Tok是一家美国公司吗?|think or thinks?
Is Tik Tok expected to be eventually available in China?
Are you one of those people who ____ (think) that "tiktok" is an American company?
这句意思是说“难道你(同其他人一样)也以为Tik Tok是一家美国公司吗?”。
张老师好,我对《新概念英语》第三册第九课课文“Flying Cat”中的“One of the things that fascinates us most about cats is the popular belief that they have nine lives”产生了疑问。这句话是定语从句,可是动词fascinates为什么用单数呢?我总觉得定语从句修饰的应该是things,应该用复数啊。
然后这位老师还提到《新概念英语》中的另一个例子:
我在《新概念英语》第二册28课里找到一句类似的句子:He is one of those rare people who believes in...课文后面解释说who believes in ...是定语从句,修饰one,所以动词用单数,of the rare people也是one的定语。那么这句话中的定语从句不可以修饰people吗?是不是说以后遇到one of …后面有定语从句时,从句中的动词都要用单数形式呢?麻烦张老师解答一下,谢谢!
"one of the things" is a singular subject that would be referred to as "it", therefore the third person singular verb conjugation should be used.
这位老外本能地就觉得应该用单数动词。等我把一番逻辑语义、修饰关系跟他说了之后,他又感觉似乎该用复数谓语:
so, all of those examples you gave are plural i think, right? so you should use the corresponding plural form. if you want to adhere to the grammar properly.
他们完全是凭借自己的母语直觉在使用单复数,根本没有想到这背后还有规则:
that's useful info. even i didn't know that for sure.
在该书P234-239共有6页内容系统讨论了这种主谓一致的问题。因为很多英语老师都来提问过我这类问题,所以,我就把它写成了一个专题,希望对大家有启发:
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