新概念英语第4册46课，原文：Of these the former are the majority.我认为这句话的正常语序应该是：The former of these are the majority.为了强调，故意把 of these 放在句首。我的问题是：为何谓语用 are，而不是 is?The former is the majority.谢谢。
Full understanding seems to involve not just being able to replace "livre" with "book", but also in the experience of the meaning in the word.老师好，请问not just和but also并列的成分为什么不对称呢？
...成分吗？
The people who hire and director the work of other employees are managers。这句话hire和direct是并列的，为什么hire不是修辞 the work of other employees而只是修饰employeess呢？
Benefits include vacation time,health insurance and bonuses for employees who do a good...
...ot like his father so much as his brother.It's a Northern flying squirrel. They don't fly so much as glide.第一句话可以直译为“他不像他哥哥那样像他父亲”，第二句话显然不能像上一句那样直译为“他们不像滑行那样飞”，我查了下，应按照“与其...
Advertising is the largest expense of most marketing plans, with public relations following in a close second and market research not falling far behind.with在这里表示什么意思，在句中做什么成份？
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many top fashion houses are slowing the rate________ they hold fashion shows. A.of which C.that B.when D.at which答案为D。rate 是速度，速率的意思。这里怎么理解呢？谢谢。
这是一道改错题，句子中有一处错误：Technological and design advances are making highways safer, as recent years have seen increased emphasis in research on the needs of older drivers.
...。（2）作“British English if children play at doctors,
soldiers etc, they pretend to be doctors, soldiers etc【英】【小孩】假扮……玩”解时，构成“play at being
something”。例如：a 14-year-old playing
at being a grown woman假扮成年女性的十四岁少女She made h...
The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.这里的track翻译成什么合适？
A new, a noble role, and Evelyn Nixon was a fine example of it: the receiver, not the giver, of beautiful inventions. 这句话中的a new, a noble role是同位语成分？为什么可以写在句首？