其他应注意的数的表达形式
1)a three-year-old boy 比较The boy is three years old
2) five thousand people / several thousand people比较 thousands of people
表达具体数字时,thousand不加 "s",后面不加 "of "; ten, million, billion情况以此类推。
3) One-third of the students have passed College English Test Band IV.
Two-thirds of the students have passed College English Test Band IV.
One-third of the population in this area is living below the poverty line.
(这个地区有1/3人口生活在贫困线以下。)
注意:几分之几的表达形式;动词的单复数由后面的名词数决定。
4) a looker-on 比较two lookers-on(旁观者) / a brother-in-law比较two brothers-in-law(姻亲兄弟)
5) my father, together with (along with / with / as well as my mother and brothers) 结构中,主语作单数处理,即my father