这类词有:the brave, the poor, the rich, the blind, the young, the old, the
sick, the dead, the deaf and dumb, the oppressed, the injured, the wounded, the
另外,像the Chinese, the British, the Irish
等表示一个国家或民族的人的总称,作主语时,谓语动词也用复数。
如:
The injured were taken to hospital.
The English do not drink much wine.
(1)The + 形容词指人做主语时,谓语动词一般用第三人称复数形式。
如:
(1) The poor were usually looked down upon by the rich.
(2) The wounded have been taken good care of in the hospital.
The + 形容词指抽象概念做主语时,谓语动词一般用单数形式。
如:
The decayed has been thrown away.
(3)形式上为复数,而意义上却是单数的名词
如news, mathematics, physics,politics, economics
及以s结尾的书名、国名等作主语时,谓语动词用单数。
如:
Mathematics is the language of science.
His "Selected Poems" was first published in 1965.