标题: 2017OG-SC-800求解 [打印本页] 作者: braisemeatball 时间: 2017-6-1 11:47 标题: 2017OG-SC-800求解 原题：Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp’s ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles.
(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting
选项可以理解，verb+ing短语，从句，还是to do短语的选择与主谓不一致可以排除A/C/D/E
，现在想知道原句中comma+verbing+that这个结构（....turtle, saying that....），that后应该是个宾语从句吧，那么逗号+saying在这里是个什么成分，有点费解，请各位大神解释一下，谢谢作者: fxxxfxxx 时间: 2017-6-1 14:15
Quote Ron: ING MODIFIER FOLLOWING COMMA
this type of modifier modifies the entire preceding clause.
When you use a COMMA -ING modifier after a clause**, you should actually satisfy TWO requirements:
1. the modifier should modify the action of the preceding clause;
2. The subject of the preceding clause should also make sense as the agent of the -ING action.
This sort of modifier should additionally satisfy TWO requirements:
1) It should apply most nearly to the subject of the preceding clause (as you've said); and, even more importantly,
2) It should have one of the following RELATIONSHIPS to that clause:
* Immediate consequence
* Simultaneous, but lower-priority, action
VERB + Ing Modifiers also take the tense of the Preceding clause.
If you have noun +, + __ing, then the __ing describes that initial noun. I.e., if there are other nouns in modifier(s) attached to that noun, then comma + __ing DOES NOT describe those closer nouns.
e.g.,
The father of the two boys, arriving at the courthouse, was xxxxx.
--> This sentence unambiguously states that the father was arriving at the courthouse.
It's important that the construction work this way, because there aren't very many other modifiers with similar functionality.
On the other hand verb + ed modifier modifies the nearest noun correctly here i.e. records.