<正> 通常,在主语前后有短语修饰主语。当这种短语修饰主语时,谓语究竟用单数还是复数,初学者往往心中无数。现举例如下,以释初学者之疑。1.with 与……一起One man with his wife,looking very anxious,was asking the guardto let them through.有个男人,带着他的妻子,看上去很焦虑,正在恳求那位哨兵放行。Tom,with a dog,was standing on the floor upstairs yesterday.昨天汤姆带着狗站在楼上的地板上。