a great many修饰可数还是不可数
a great many后直接接复数名词,动词用复数。用于肯定句中,相当于many,a large number of。
a great many 与 a great many of 的用法区别
1.a great many 与 a great many of 的用法区别,可以简化为 many 与 many of 的用法区别。
many既是限定词,用于修饰名词,也是不定代词,代替名词。在many farmers中,many是限定词;在many of短语中many是代词。通常情况下代词后接of...时,of后应该用特指的名词或代词。
例如 some students, some of the students;either side 与 either of the sides;much money 与 much of the money,以及 many soldiers 与 many of their soldiers 等。(当然,也有少量代词用法特殊的,比如 both (of) his daughters 中的 of 可有可无,这与 both 这个限定词的定位有关,在此不拟多谈。)
2.因为many of修饰名词时,是代词,而many修饰名词时是限定词,这样也造成了一些用法区别。可以说many of his friends,但不说many his friends,因为many是后位限定词,his是中位限定词,his须置于many之前。所以须将词序改为his many friends才合适。
修饰可数名词和修饰不可数名词的短语
修饰可数名词
修饰可数名词的有a good / great many, a large / great number of, scores of等,谓语动词用复数形式。
如:A great / good many words and expressions h***e come into the language from American English.
这门语言吸收了美国英语中的许多单词和短语。
There were scores of boxes, all waiting to be checked and loaded. 大批的箱子等着检验后装运。
修饰不可数名词
修饰不可数名词的有a large amount of等,谓语动词用单数形式。
如:He has spent a large amount of money on his new house.
他在新房子上花费了许多钱。
既能修饰可数名词,又能修饰不可数名词
既能修饰可数名词,又能修饰不可数名词的有:a lot of, lots of, plenty of等,谓语动词根据被修饰的名词是可数还是不可数来决定单复数形式。
如:There are a lot of / lots of people in that room.
那个房间里有许多人。
There’s a lot of / lots of rice in the bag.
那只口袋里有许多大米。