large quantity of后既可接复数可数名词,亦可接不可数名词。
在它们分别和其后的名词构成短语作主语时,其谓语动词通常看of后名词的具体情况而采用单数或复数形式。
如果是接不可数名词,则谓语用单数形式,如果是接复数可数名词,则谓语通常要采用复数形式;如果是可数名词复数,谓语用复数。另外:如果讲成:quantities of不管它后面接什么,谓语均用复数。
Large quantities of drugs were found during a police swoop on the star's New York home.
警方对这位明星在纽约的住所进行突击搜查,发现了大量毒品。
The Customs have seized large quantities of smuggled heroin.
海关查获了大量走私的海洛因。
The state allotted them large quantities of chemical fertilizer.
国家给他们调拨了大量化肥。
Wastewater treatment plants concentrate large quantities of phosphorus and ammonia in their sludge-handling streams.
一般在污水处理厂的污泥中会富集大量的磷和氨。
When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.
当秃鹰吃掉其他含铅动物的尸体时,它们会吸收大量的铅。