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标题: 对OG13 SC14中inventories做主语一些疑惑，希望能和大家讨论一下 [打印本页]

作者: yuanhaowen 时间: 2014-2-16 05:02
标题: 对OG13 SC14中inventories做主语一些疑惑，希望能和大家讨论一下
Rising inventories, when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.

(A) when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead
(B) when not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, possibly leads
(C) when they were unaccompanied by corresponding sales increases, can lead
(D) if not accompanied by correspondingly increased sales, possibly leads
(E) if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, can lead

在OG的解释中说inventories是subject，所以后面的lead需要用复数。所以这里的rising应该是做限定性的修饰来修饰inventories.
但是从另外一个角度说，rising inventories可以整体作为一个主语吧，然后这样一个事情可以导致production cutbacks的发生。
就像manhattan里面的subject phrases and clauses：always singular的例子一样：having a good friends is a wonderful thing.

希望各位好心人能够解答我的疑问啊

作者: olivia瓜瓜 时间: 2014-2-16 11:12
觉得这两个用法直接的区别在于：
SC里的rising 是形容词，而 haveing a good friend 这里是一个动名词。

如果像你说的强调这个rising是主语的话。
更应该是 rising in inventories leads

我猜测如何来区分是一个形容词还是动名词：

我发现一个现象，这里的having 后面也跟名词 a friend ，可是在动名词中，这个a friend 是having的逻辑宾语，即比如 i have a friend。

而在rising中，这里是形容词，后面的名词是rising的逻辑主语，而不是宾语，inventories rise.

只是一个猜测，亲可以再思考思考，能不能验证这个说法