以-s結尾的表示山脈、群島等複數意義的專有名詞作主語，謂語動詞用複數形式。如：the Alps阿爾卑斯山，the Philippine Islands菲律賓群島，the Appalas阿巴拉契亞山脈，the Himalayas喜馬拉雅山脈。The Alps are the greatest mountain range in Europe.They cover an area of about 200，000 sq.km.
3.集體名詞作主語
集體名詞作主語，如果表示整體概念，謂語動詞用單數形式，如果就具體成員而言，謂語動詞用複數形式。
如：army，association，audience，band，board（董事會），cast（全體演員），choir（唱詩班），chorus，（部落；黨派），class，club，college，ission，ittee，pany，corporation，cil，couple，crew，crowd，department，enemy，faculty，family，federation，firm，gang，geion，gover，group，institution，jury（陪審團），majority，military，minority，nation，navy，opposition，orchestra，pair，personnel，public，staff，team，tribe，union等。A jury sists of twelve persons to decide who has the better lawyer.（Robert Frost）The publibsp;is wonderfully tolerant.It fives everything except genius.（Osbsp;Wilde）I sometimes think that the saving grabsp;of Ameribsp;lies in the fabsp;that the overwhelming majority of Ameris are possd of two great qualities- a n of humor and a n of proportion.（Franklin D.Roovelt）
有些集體名詞如cattle，folk，militia，police等，隻作為複數看，謂語動詞用複數形式。如：The key is to it crimes so fusing that polibsp;feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.（Randy K.Milholland）具有單數意義的集體名詞作主語，謂語動詞為單數形式。如：There is a lot of furniture in the living-room.
4.代詞作主語
不定代詞each，every，no等修飾的名詞即使以and或逗號連接成多個並列主語，謂語動詞仍用單數形式。如：Happy families are all alike； every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.（Leo Tolstoy）如果主語由more than one...或many a...構成，盡管從意義上看是複數，但謂語動詞仍用單數形式。如：Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.（Mark Twain）both，（a）few，many，veral等限定詞修飾主語，謂語動詞要用複數形式。如：Mine honour is my life，both grow in oake honour from me and my life is done.（William Shakespeare）
Many receive advice，few profit by it.（Publilius Syrus）such，the same 起指示代詞作用，應根據其所指的內容來決定單複數。如：Subsp;is the on process of marriage.A youth and maiden exge meeting by ce，or brought together by artifice，exge glances，reciprocate civilities，go home，and dream of one another.Having little to divert attention，or diversify thought，they find themlves uneasy when they are apart，and therefore clude that they shall be happy together.They marry，and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before cealed； they wear out life in altercations，and charge nature with cruelty.（Samuel Johnson）