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Singular Verb (động từ số ít) Plural Verb (động từ số nhiều)

✓ Danh từ không đếm được/ danh từ đếm được số ít ✓ Danh từ số nhiều
Milk is good for your health. This book is mine. Students are playing football now.
✓ Mệnh đề, To V, V-ing ✓ The + adj → Noun (chỉ 1 nhóm người)
What he told was interesting. After the accident, the injured were taken to
Smoking is harmful to your health. hospital.
✓ Each / Every / Either/ Neither + N (số ít) ✓ Some, a few, both, many, a lot of, all,
Every teacher likes teaching/ Each door is different color. …+ N (số nhiều)
✓ Each/ either/ neither/ any + of + the + N (số nhiều) Some books I bought yesterday are in English
Each of students has a book. / Neither of the oranges is ripe. All the seats have a number.
✓ Each/ every + N (số ít) + and + (each/ every) + N (số ít)
Each boy and each girl has an English book.
✓ Đại từ bất định (Someone, somebody, no one, ✓ The police/the sheep/the fish
nobody, anyone, anybody, everyone,…) The sheep are breaking away
Everything looks bright and clean. The police come only to see the dead bodies.
✓ Một số danh từ có hình thức số nhiều nhưng có ✓ Các danh từ luôn ở số nhiều + V (số
nghĩa số ít nhiều)
- News (tin tức) Scissors Jeans Eyeglasses
- Môn học: Physics, Economics, Mathematics, Politics,.. Shorts Tongs Pliers
- Môn thể thao: athletes, gymnastics,… Pants Trousers Tweezers
- Bệnh tật: measles (sởi), mumps (quai bị), rickets (còi The trousers you bought for me don’t fit me
xương),… These scissors are very dull
- Quốc gia: the Philippines, the United States,… - Nhưng khi sử dụng a pair of trước các
✓ Các từ chỉ số lượng, thời gian, khoảng cách và tiền: danh từ này thì đồng từ chia theo số ít
8 hours of sleep is enough. / 20 miles is a long way to walk The pants are in the drawer.
 ✓ Tên của một bài báo, một cuốn sách, một câu A pair of pants is in the drawer.
chuyện, một bộ phim, …
Tom and Jerry is very well known all over the world.
✓ More than one + N (đếm được số ít)
More than one person has known the news
✓ Các cụm từ chỉ một nhóm động vật hoặc gia súc.
(flock of birds/ sheep, school of fish, herd of cattle,
pride of lions, pack of dogs)
The flock of birds is circling overhead.

❖ Hai danh từ nối với nhau bằng “and”

Singular Verb
Hai danh từ nối với nhau bằng and cùng chỉ
về một người, vật hoặc một ý tưởng
My friend and adviser, Tom, is arriving tonight.
Bread and butter is my favorite breakfast food.
Plural Verb
Hai danh từ nối với nhau bằng and chỉ hai người, hai
vật hoặc hai sự vật khác nhau
My friend and my adviser are arriving tonight.
Water and oil don’t mix.

❖ Chủ ngữ và động từ được ngăn cách bởi một ngữ giới từ (Preposition + Noun)
S + Preposition + Noun + V → Động từ phụ thuộc vào chủ ngữ phía trước.
The boys in the room are playing chess. The teacher in front of the children is very good.
The study of languages is very interesting. Several theories on this subject have been proposed.
S1 + With/ As well as/ Together with/ In addition to/ Along with/ Accompanied by/ No less/
Including + S2 + V (chia theo chủ ngữ thứ nhất)
My son, as well as my daughter, likes reading. Maria together with her sister is going to France.

❖ No và None
Singular Verb
None of the + N (không đếm được/ số ít) + V
(số ít)
None of the counterfeit money has been found.
No + N (không đếm được/ số ít) + V (số ít)
No example is relevant to this case.
Plural Verb
None of the + N (đếm được số nhiều) + V (số
nhiều)
None of the students have finished the exam yet.
No + N (đếm được số nhiều) + V (số nhiều)
No examples are relevant to this case.
❖ Either... or…/ neither... nor…, or, not only…but also…
Singular Verb Plural Verb
Động từ chia theo chủ ngữ gần nhất
Neither his friends nor Carmen has seen this movie Neither Carmen nor his friends have seen this movie
before. before.
Either John or Bill is going to the beach today. Either John or his friends are going to the beach today.
Workers or their manager is going to answer the press The manager or workers are going to answer the press
interview. interview.
Not only the bed room but also the rest of the house was Not only Tom but his parents live here.
flooded.

❖ A couple/ the couple/ a number of/ the number of

Singular verb Plural verb
✓ A couple and the couple
A couple + V (số ít) The couple + V (số nhiều)
A couple is walking on the path. The couple are racing their horses through the meadow.
✓ A number of, the number of
The number of + N (số nhiều) + V (số ít) A number of + N (số nhiều) + V (số nhiều)
The number of days in a week is seven. A number of students are going to the class picnic.
✓ There is, there are
There is +N (số ít) There are + N (số nhiều)
There was an accident last night. There have been a number of telephone calls today.
There is + N (số ít) + and + N (số nhiều) There are + N (số nhiều) + and N (số ít)
There is a table and two chairs. There are two chairs and a table.

❖ Đối với những từ chỉ tỉ lệ như percent (phần trăm), fraction (phân số), part (phần), some, all,
plenty, half, a lot, most, the last, the rest, the remainder (những cái còn lại) + of + …
Percent, fraction, part, some, all, plenty, half, a lot, most, the last, the rest, the remainder + Of
+ N (số ít) + V (số nhiều) + N (số nhiều) + V (số nhiều)
Fifty percent of this money has been stolen. Fifty percent of the pies have disappeared.
One-third of the city is unemployed. One-third of the people are unemployed.
All of the pie is gone All of the pies are gone.
Some of the milk was sour. Some of the apples were rotten.
A lot of time is needed to learn a language. A lot of my friends want to emigrate.
Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentence.
Question 1: Five thousand dollars __________ big sum of money. It’s worth trying.
A. are a B. are C. is a D. would be
Question 2: The first two problems________ very difficult but_________ are not.
A. are – the rest B. is – the other C. are – another D. are – the last
Question 3: Not only Linda but also John__________ down the names for the course in French.
A. has put B. have put C. are put D. are putting
Question 4: Half of the letters she sent him __________ in purple ink.
A. wrote B. has written C. was written D. were written
Question 5: Psychologists have found that the number of social contacts we have_________ only reason
for loneliness.
A. are not the B. is not the C. are not an D. is not an
Question 6: Neither Jim nor his brothers ________ to school. Their father teaches them at home.
A. have never been B. has ever been C. have ever been D. ever go
Question 7: The fact that the new staff members were complimented on their achievement _________
known to the whole company.
A. has B. have C. was D. are
Question 8: The facilities at the new research library, including an excellent microfilm file, _________
wonderful.
A. are B. is C. has been D. was
Question 9: Each of the 4 types of human ___________ suited for a specific purpose.
A. tooth are B. teeth is C. tooth is D. teeth are
Question 10: In the hotel, the bread and butter___________ for breakfast.
A. is served B. are served C. serves D. serve
Question 11: Several _______ sleeping under a tree.
A. of lions were B. lions were C. lion was D. of the lions was
Question 12: Everyone who _______ a ticket should be in this line.
A. hasn’t purchased B. doesn’t purchase C. don’t purchase D. haven’t purchased
Question 13: What________ you used in picking a winner in the art contest?
A. are the criterions B. is the criteria C. are the criterion D. are the criteria
Question 14: Billiards ______ considered to be an artistic sport.
A. has B. are C. have D. is
Question 15: Many of the____ not used today. They are remnants of the past.
A. railroad’s tracks around here are B. railroad’s tracks around here is
C. railroad tracks around here is D. railroad’s track around here are
Question 16: Cattle _______ raised mostly in the south of the United States.
A. has B. are C. have D. is
Question 17: Measles _______ proven to be caused by a kind of virus.
A. are B. is C. has D. have
Question 18: The United Nations ______ its headquarters in New York city.
A. to have B. having C. have D. has
Question 19: What he told you________ to be of no importance.
A. have seemed B. seems C. must seem D. seem
Question 20: Mr. John, accompanied by several members of the committee, ________ proposed some
changes of the rules.
A. has B. is C. are D. have
Question 21: Tom doesn’t agree but the rest of us______.
A. does B. done C. do D. doing
Question 22: A lunch of soup and sandwiches ______not appeal to all of the students.
A. does B. are C. is D. do
Question 23: Above the fireplaces ______ a portrait of Lenin.
A. is B. be C. to be D. are
Question 24: The Japanese ________ believed to be very self-respected.
A. be B. has C. is D. are
Question 25: The City Committee _______ trying to make the final decision about the matter.
A. is B. am C. are D. be
Question 26: Pliers _______ for holding things firmly or cutting wire.
A. are B. am C. be D. is
Question 27: One of the girls who______ working in this department ______my niece.
A. was/ were B. are/ is C. is/ being D. is/ are
Question 28: Both of the girls ________ pretty, but neither of them ______intelligent.
A. are/ is B. is/ is C. are/ are D. is/ are
Question 29: Jim as well as I ________ always busy doing English homework.
A. are B. is C. am D. be
Question 30: The police _________ come to the site of the accident.
A. have B. have been C. has been D. has
Question 31: Every boy and girl in this room _________the answer.
A. know B. known C. have known D. knows
Question 32: Here _______the clown that you _______best.
A. comes/ likes B. come/ like C. comes/ like D. come/likes
Question 33: John or you ________ to be responsible for the unfinished work.
A. are B. is C. have D. has
Question 34: Three kilos of potatoes _________ the basket heavier.
A. makes B. do C. does D. make
Question 35: My sister, together with her two children, ________ to Hawaii at the moment.
A. flies B. fly C. are flying D. is flying