颠覆了我的三观啊！What主语从句谓语动词是单数还是复数的问题！

顿东w

我也bump一下
现在遇到了一模一样的困扰
Ron确实是说不会在SC里看到what are xxx
但是prep08笔记里说 what his father left him are a few English books

今天也要加油鸭

prep08笔记里那道题我的思路是这样的：
RON 说过 IF  ANYTHING BEFORE THE VERB CAN BE THE SUBJECT, THEN THAT'S THE SUBJECT；所以需要通过what判断。而根据句意what指代的其实是后面的aperiodic tiles，所以就用复数。
不知道可不可以这样理解？

今天也要加油鸭

今天也要加油鸭 发表于 2018-12-1 10:38
prep08笔记里那道题我的思路是这样的：
RON 说过 IF  ANYTHING BEFORE THE VERB CAN BE THE SUBJECT, THEN  ...

不对 好像有点不对...我凌乱了...

今天也要加油鸭

今天也要加油鸭 发表于 2018-12-1 10:40
不对 好像有点不对...我凌乱了...

我好像知道了，这是倒装吧...所以要根据后面的判断。

fresa

看了楼主的帖子，一度也觉得很迷惑用法。  刚刚结合ron的回复和楼上的回复，有一些思路，和大家一起讨论。

比较倾向于Ron对这种题目的理解，首先我觉得下面这个句子用“is ”是正确的。
一：
what his father gave him IS a few books
这个句子里头 ，subject是 What his father gave him, 一个单独的句子作为主语，应该用的是单数 is


二： 那如果是一堆词语（phrase）作subject,  verb应该用单数还是复数呢？
比如说：
the reason for their decoration, the use to which primitive people put the caves, and the meaning of the magnificently depicted animals

结构可以省略为the reason, the use , and the meaning .虽然每个noun都是单数，但是用and连接起来二个以上的noun (或者phrase)就要用复数了！
所以，这种情况用的是  are


三：
The work of mathematician Roger Penrose in the early 1970s, on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe the architecture of a previously unknown class of crystals.

关注点在于 on the geometry of what "are "called aperiodic tiles  ,这里为什么要用复数are
先找动词，是be动词 （不确定is /are ）

if anything BEFORE the verb CAN BE the subject, then that thing will be the subject.  动词前面出现的名词/名词词组/what引导的句子都可以当主语 （介词短语无法做主语哦）
这里be动词前面的是" what ” ，what 指代的是aperiodic tiles ，所以应该用复数 are

注意这里的what 的是作为一个类似于代词的用法，和情况一 引导的整一个句子作主语，是不一样的
所以on the geometry of what "are "called aperiodic tiles  我认为不属于倒装句，而是根据what的涵义判断用的are

vanessayoung

遇到了同样问题，收藏了

备战托福少年

prep 08笔记错了， 我已经遇到了好几道题，what 引导的从句后面就是接单数谓语，prep 08上面的解释都自相矛盾了

备战托福少年

然后知道我发现700-800club 里面这道题，按照以前的规则做错了， What concern scientists the most about global warming are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result  
....   看了很多帖子还是不明白为什么...算了 不纠结这个了   

RottenGin

就是应该判断一下句子动词前的成分是否可以做主语，像Ron举的例子，介词短语或者比较级放在开头，很显然这个时候往后找主语（这种现象属于倒装），至于前边讨论的，what从句等等都是可以做主语的成分，所以只需要用单数就可以了（不需要向后边找主语）

断了的弦

What concern scientists the most about global warming are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt,
the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result.
• are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and
that violent weather patterns may result
• is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life,
and that violent weather patterns may result
• are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life,
and that violent weather patterns may result
• is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and
that violent weather patterns may result
• are the risks of polar ice caps melting, seas growing too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent
weather patterns may result
这道题选c，我凌乱了