云南学位英语考试词汇：“One of…”中的复数名词

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云南学位英语考试词汇：“One of…”中的复数名词

"We are a licensed Real Estate Agency and one of the fastest growing housing agency in Singapore."

上面这句房地产广告中的话，望文生义，清楚易解，只可惜犯了语法上的一个大忌，就是把复数名词变成单数：agencies→agency.

单数也可以，只是后半部的句子要作调整：“……and the fastest growing housing agency in Singapore.”

调整后的句子避免了语法错误，但是句子的意思有些改变，就是从“其中一个代理商”变成“唯一的代理商。”最好还是从根本的语法错误着手，就是把“one of……”后头的agency改为agencies.这种错误改正，在学生英文作文里，是司空见惯的事，不足为奇的。例如：

①South Korea is one of the Asian country that used to have student mobs.(应改为countries)

②One of the most obvious disadvantage is that the relationship between the parents and the children is not intimate.(应改为disadvantages)

从这样的改正中可以看到在“one of……”这样的句式中，跟着出现的名词必须是可数复数名词(plural countable nouns)如：countries,friends,shops,goats等，而不是可数单数名词如：country,friend,shop,goat或不可数名词(uncountable nouns),如：love,oil,knowledge,information等。因此，除了上面①和②句子是错的之外，③和④也不对：www.yingyusanji.com

③One of the equipments was damaged.

④I have special liking for one of the new furnitures.

③和④的错误来自不可数名词equipments和furnitures，因为这类名词是不可有复数的。

其次，必须注意的是“one of……”这样的句式当主语时，后面的动词如果是简单现在时态(simple present tense)的话，一定要跟one搭配;one既然是单数，动词当然也是单数，如：

⑤One of the fastest growing housing agencies in Singapore is none other than New Century Real Estate Agency.

⑥One of the effective ways of enriching English vocabulary is to use the vocabulary learnt.

⑦One of the reasons for bad reading and writing seems to be that people today pay more attention to listening and seeing than reading and writing.

这样的一致性也适用于接系动词(linking verb)的简单过去时态(simple past tense)“was”，如：

⑧One of the proposals at the meeting yesterday was rejected.

⑨One of the questions Tom raised at the news conference was irrelevant to the matters under discussion.

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