Question

There ____sheep eating grass at the foot of the hill right now .

There ____sheep eating grass at the foot of the hill right now.
A.is a number of B.are the number of
C.is the number of D.are a number of
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Answer 1

首先，sheep单复数一致，若要表示单数，要用冠词a，选项没有。所以这里的sheep表复数
因为a number of 加复数名词同a lot of所以选D，而the number of 表示其中.......的数量是...
本句翻译为 有许多羊正在山脚下吃草