every的用法

freshopenair

有没有一个权威的答案啊。好晕啊。

tianyi_2003

遵循主语 谓语要一致的原理

every 32 students,主语是32 students，和 every 无关，用复数

注意each of 32 students，这个主语的中心词是each必须用单数

至于there be 的单复数用法，以近为准，比如, there is A and B, A是单数所以就用is，和B无关，至于There is A prep B, 那当然更不用管B了

yichousun

我和楼上的想法一样！

heritta

先做个记号, 我完全没看懂...... 泪

there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were

there were 后面省略掉的是什么啊？

如果是 there were 1/4 microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils four years ago 为什么要用 were 呢？

jillylm

这道题感觉考点不是has/have,因为陈述的是一种比例关系，have/has指的是实际所属关系，这里并不是说，每32个学生拥有一台电脑，而是强调每32个学生配备一台电脑使用，所以考点是as many as和there be A+prep phrase， there be 用单复数是根据就近原则的。D和E没什么好讨论，逻辑意义上不通。

forestsky

the use of less and fewer:

less is used for mass nouns (uncountable), fewer is used for count nouns.
little > less > least; few > fewer > fewest
since amount, time, distance, money, etc. are measureable, not countable, less should be used instead of fewer. For example, 2 hours or less.

less of nouns (less here refers to amount), equivalent to less amout of nouns. fewer nouns, there is no need and no place for fewer of nouns, since fewer can directly link to nouns.

elle08

我觉得解这道题没这么复杂，首先four times as many as是固定搭配，因此ABD很快被排除，然后E的比较对象是错的，也被排除，只剩下C必选了。

我记得Gemj说过，不要太过抠一个语法点，没有太大的意义。

妞妞的牛牛

以下是引用renpinwudi在2007-11-23 22:52:00的发言：

Choices A, B, and C appropriately use the construction "one X for every thirty-two Ys" to describe the ratio of computers to pupils, but only C, the best answer, is error-free. In A, are does not agree with the subject, one microcomputer; furthermore, in A, B, and D, than is used where as is required. Choices D and E reorder and garble the "one X ..." construction, making four times as many refer illogically to pupils.

从cissy的例子开始就看疯了…… 不知道是不是自己搞错了 根本就在讨论一个无关样本！ there is one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils: is 对应的是one computer， 跟后面的every没关系   仅从D E 2个错误选项里 有什么好总结的 根本没有代表性 就算D E 很明显OG的说法是EVERY xxx  HAS(OR HAVE)这个结构与后面不对应 根本没有解释have has的问题

LZM那个说法是错的  那些词只是在“正常用法下”接单数  EVERY 32 PUPILS本身是个特殊情况 如果非要说是接单数 我只能理解我是作为一个整体 一点点类似于every cup and folk has, 或者是因为习惯 every man and women has.  但我google了一下 英语论坛也没讨论清楚http://www.englishforums.com/English/VerbSingularPluralForm/jmzl/Post.htm     没时间继续google 希望谁能搜到个真正权威的说法来解释every 32 pupils has or have的问题

我同意renpinwudi的观点，从OG的解释来看，这道题压根就没考every用单数还是复数，也没说every 32 pupils改变了one X for...是错的，只是说DE这么用，是后面的four times as many as指pupils了，错误在这里，而不在have/has

executive

agree with 妞妞的牛牛, the key points of this question are

1) as many as --- the second ‘as'不可少

2) there were 不可少

Every 单复数不是考点，看来ETS没打算在'Every'上做文章，因为没有用法上的统一共识

xxxyyyxxx

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