标题: there be否定句中谓语动词单复数的问题 [打印本页] 作者: 杨梅希果 时间: 2022-1-11 12:27 标题: there be否定句中谓语动词单复数的问题 根据在曼哈顿，there be的单复数判断方法是将句子还原后，根据主语判断v-谓单复数。如果是否定也是这样吗，比如：
there be no X or Y->no X or Y be there
此时or就近原则，be单复数同Y吗？请各位大佬指导一下，感谢感谢！有一道advanced题：
Before Colette, the female writers of France had been aristocrats, from Mme de Lafayette to Anne de Noailles; there were no Jane Austens or Brontë sisters, perhaps because there were almost no clergymen’s daughters.
A.were no Jane Austens or
B.were not Jane Austens or
C.was not Jane Austen nor the
D.was not a Jane Austen or the
E.was no Jane Austen or no
