标题: 关于V-ing修饰的用法 prep与baby姐贴等矛盾的地方 [打印本页] 作者: sillytortoise 时间: 2016-10-2 22:01 标题: 关于V-ing修饰的用法 prep与baby姐贴等矛盾的地方 发现有些问题,比如在prep语法笔记里提到
在S, v-ing, V. + O.这样的表达中,v-ing约定俗成只伴随修饰动词,见下例:
prep 2-104 The yield per acre of coffee berries varies enormously, because a single tree, depending on its size and on climate and altitude, is able to produce enough berries to make between one and twelve pounds of dried beans a year.
这个句子里depending不能改为dependent,因为depending和dependent的区别在于,前者伴随修饰谓语动词is able to produce,后者则是修饰名词single tree,会造成逻辑上不对 —— “一棵树依靠它的size”。