the numbers of ?

在刘振民语法精解中看到主谓一致中写的第九点量词主谓一致中提到“the numbers of +可数名词”的修饰必错？是什么意思啊？

为什么我在新东方语法笔记了看到说“the numbers of"表示“。。。的数量”。

请高人指点

怎么没人帮忙解答啊？请教大家啊

不太明白MM问的问题。

the number of + A =====  A的数量，谓语动词单数

a number of + A (A 可数，复数；不可数单数)===== 许多， 谓语动词复数

the number of something
The number of cars on our roads rose dramatically last year.
a number of something
We have been friends for a number of years.

the numbers 单独----- 数量， adj 只能用 greater , 不用 lower / more

给MM一个OG的例子或许可以给你点思路

251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. .

(A)  extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than

(B)  extinction; its numbers are now five times more than

(C)  extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were

(D)  extinction, now with fivefold the numbers
                they had

(E)   extinction, now with numbers five times
                greater than

A, the best choice, uses a singular pronoun, its, to refer to the singular antecedent The gyrfalcon, and it properly uses the construction its numbers are now ... greater than. In B, the construction its numbers are ... more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers. Choices C and D use a plural pronoun, their or they, to refer to a grammatically singular antecedent, The gyrfalcon. Choices D and E wrongly use a phrase introduced by now with to modify The gyrfalcon. In both choices, the phrase confusingly seems to parallel with extinction; a new clause with a present tense verb is needed to state what the gyrfalcon's numbers are now.