想問下單數同眾數問題...

2012-03-09 7:07 am
1.there was a lot of traffic
2.there were a lot of traffic


本書答案係 1.WAS...
點解係WAS既?

a lot of traffic=" 好多"車
即係眾數....
但用WAS?唔用WERE

回答 (4)

2012-03-09 9:48 am
✔ 最佳答案
重點在於traffic呢個字
查一查yahoo字典:
n.[U]交通There is too much traffic on the road.這條路上行人車輛太多了。Police control the traffic in large cities.在大城市裡, 警察控制交通。交通行列; 交通量Traffic is very heavy during the rush hour.尖峰時間交通十分繁忙。貿易, 買賣; 非法交易[(+in)]Illegal traffic in protected animals is quite common there.非法買賣受保護的動物在那裡是司空見慣的事。運輸; 運載量; 運輸業Passenger traffic has gone up by 20 per cent.客流量已增長百分之二十。交往, 交流I don't want any more traffic with his sort.我不想再和他那種人來往了。電信; 電信業務Radio traffic has stepped up enormously.無線電通訊已大大增加。
traffic當作名詞用果陣係[U],代表uncountable
好似water,money等詞語,基本使用時都係uncountable,應視為單數,亦唔會+s
所以係用was唔係were
2012-03-10 8:42 am
Since traffic is clarified as a system of transportation facilities, cars, railways, ships, planes,etc, which means traffic can only be used as a singular thing since we just take the whole case as one system.
2012-03-10 5:04 am
it should not able to use 'were' otherwise will fail
the word 'traffice' is uncountable,and only for singular
that's it
2012-03-09 7:29 am
"traffic" is not countable
so it is singular

we use ' is , was ' instead of ' are, were ' for singular noun


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