标题: 求助manhattan sc里一个语法问题 [打印本页] 作者: slave918 时间: 2014-3-30 17:29 标题: 求助manhattan sc里一个语法问题 在Chapter 12Pronouns&Modifiers:extra的problem set的第六个句子
我贴在这里:
The principal tried to clam that the worried students' parents, as a result of those students disappearing in the storm.
答案说worried在上句中修饰了students',所以要改。
改成了
the principal tried to calm the worried parents of the students who had disappeared in the storm.
我的疑问是:worried是个形容词,形容词只修饰名词或代词。所以在这里应该不会有歧义啊。
就像我在Chapter5:modifier里看的例子:
JJ is Max's supposed Irish ancestor.
Manhattan也讲了supposed修饰的是ancestor。
求大家帮我解释解释吧!!!
thanks in advance.
that the worried students' parents, 这样看这句话很可能觉得worried修饰的是parents。用这个修饰逻辑改写一下你再看看:
.....that the worried my parents ....... 很不通顺吧,如果worried做动词,去掉前面的the,没问题。但是做形容词呢?修饰的什么呢?显然是错误的。再看个例子:
those men's cars 看看这句话,你觉得those修饰的是men还是cars?显然是修饰men的对吧。再改改:
the angry men's cars 很通顺吧?继续,
the worried men's parents=====the worried student's parents 修饰关系是不是一下子明显了。