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What is the proximity principle in English?
The so-called near/far principle refers to how to judge the number of sentence predicates when the subject structure of a sentence is complex.

1. Proximity principle: there/here+be/ copula, there ... or ..., there ... is not ... not only ... but (also) ..., not ... but ..., the score/percentage modifier (outside the population category) means more.

2. The principle of distance: and (together/along) and, not, except/idea/but/including.

Not only you but also I am right.

Two thirds of the earth is covered with water.

Many students in our school have never been abroad.

It is he, not I, who is right.

There are only two students in the classroom.