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上一篇文章，我提到新概念英语第二册第28课第一句话有错误，在看了张满胜老师的最新语法书后，也和不少英语老师交流了一下，现在总结一下。
先给结论：动词的单数 or 复数，都存在
按照语法的规则来说，这句话：Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths. Who指代先行词people，believe应该用复数，这样才是符合语法规则的句子。
问题：符合语法规则的句子，就一定正确吗？
然而在日常使用时，单数也是存在的，那到底用单数还是复数呢？
今天我们从两个角度来剖析一下：
第一是：语义，第二是：语境。
首先，下面我们把这两个句子做一下拆分，看看在表达上有没有一些细微的差异。
【一】Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths.
拆分为：Of those rare people,Jasper White believes in ancient myths.
在那些为数很少的人之中，Jasper White 相信古代神话传说。
（潜台词是：这些人各有各的怪，但不是都相信神话，只不过他如此而已。）
【二】Jasper White is one of those rare people who believe in ancient myths.
Of those rare people who believe in ancient myths,Jasper White is one of them.
在那些相信古代神话传说的人之中，Jasper White 是其中之一。
(潜台词就是：这些人都相信古代神话，Jasper White就是其中之一 ）
由于定语从句修饰的对象的不同，就导致了不一样的涵义，那应该选择哪一种呢？
再看一下全文：
Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths. He has just bought a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with cars and their owners. When he returns home at night, he always finds that someone has parked a car outside his gate. Because of this, he has not been able to get his own car into his garage even once. Jasper has put up "No Parking" signs outside his gate, but these have not had any effect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is one of the ugliest faces I have ever seen. I asked him what it was and he told me that it was Medusa, the Gorgon. Jasper hopes that she will turn cars and their owners to stone. But none of them has been turned to stone yet!
同时结合，我们看这个问题的另一个视角，就是语境，这篇文章的话题是关于谁的，Jasper White。Jasper Whiteis one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths. He has just bought a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with cars and their owners.
注意黑体的部分，就不难理解了。从语篇角度来看，用单数believes,更符合作者要表达的意思。如果文章话题，谈论的是those rare people,那就可以用复数谓语了。也就是说，用单数还是复数，和作者要表达的目的，以及上下文是有很大关系的。
在《新概念英语3》lesson9也有类似的句子：One of the things that fascinates us most about cats is the popular belief that they have nine lives.
下面是我两位外国朋友的回复：
这个问题基本就清楚了，有本靠谱的语法书，或者有几个外国朋友，有的时候显得非常重要。
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