英语there 是there is a girl and a boy还是there are a girl and a boy 判断的依据是什么?在双城记的原著上是：there were a king with large jaw and a queen with plain face.

你好，应该是there is a girl and a boy，就近原则

there is 就近原则。a girl 一个女孩 单数 所以用is

就近原则
there are two boys and a girl;
ther is a girl and two boys;

是there are a girl and a boy . there be ...句型中，be后是主语，此句主语是a girl and a boy ，指两个人，故there are a girl and a boy 。正确。

应该是there is a girl and a boy.判断的依据:第一个名词是单数,用is如第一个名词是复数,就用are,例:There is a box and two pencils on the table.There are two pencils and a box on the table.句子不同,但意思相...

应该用there is a 。在这样的句型中，是选择is 还是are 是根据与它（be）最近名词（主语）来确定。这就是英语老师讲的“就近原则”。
你把关键的后半句没有拷贝上！There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England；
句子强调一个throne上同时存在两个“物品”（一个king和一个queen）