the recycling of A and B视作单数还是复数

我原先认为一定是视作单数,但是下面这个句子(取自Daily Mail一篇新闻稿)感觉又是视作复数更合适。

While the recycling of constrcution waste and tyres have both been growing, both industries continue to generate significantly more waste than is currently reused.

这个句子到底对不对?请老师分析一下,谢谢!

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最佳答案 2020-11-08 12:27

网友说的单数、复数,应该是指谓语动词 has been growing,还是 have been growing 吧?

While the recycling of constrcution waste and tyres have both been growing, both industries continue to generate significantly more waste than is currently reused. (误)

While the recycling of constrcution waste and tyres has both been growing, both industries continue to generate significantly more waste than is currently reused.(正)

1. while 从句中,主语中心词是 the recycling,而of ...定语中的复数名词,不影响使用单数谓语动词。

2.  than is currently reused 是比较状语从句。than 看作比较代词,指代前文被比较项 more 所修饰的 waste,同时作从句的主语。

其他都很简单。

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曹荣禄  
擅长:动词用法,句法问题

both提示主语为复数。同时逻辑分析可知建筑垃圾和旧轮胎的回收再利用是不通的过程,所以主语部分and并列的并不是construction waste 和 tyres, 而是the recycling of constrcution waste and the recycling of tyres. 所以这个句子用复数是正确的。

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mikee

同意曹老师观点,如果是单一行为,用both作什么呢?所以是both have,不是both has

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