OG17语法题第697题，指代问题

shenpo · 发表于 2017-2-19 16:23:17

697. A professor at the university has taken a sabbatical to research on James Baldwin’s
books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living there.
A. on James Baldwin’s books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living
there
B. about the books James Baldwin wrote in France
C. into James Baldwin’s books written while in France
D. on the books of James Baldwin, written while he lived in France
E. the books James Baldwin wrote while he lived in France
这一题的E选项he的指代不够清楚，我不知道he是指代professor还是指代James Baldwin？希望NN可以帮我解答一下

RamosZou · 发表于 2017-2-20 11:29:13

A professor at the university has taken a sabbatical to research on James Baldwin’s
books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living there.
A. on James Baldwin’s books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living
there
B. about the books James Baldwin wrote in France
C. into James Baldwin’s books written while in France
D. on the books of James Baldwin, written while he lived in France
E. the books James Baldwin wrote while he lived in France

A.    James Baldwin’s books that Baldwin wrote in…这个表达啰嗦，JB的书肯定是JB这个人写的，所以这个that从句的修饰没有必要，或者改为research on books that JB wrote in…
B.    Research后面只能接介词in,into,on，不能接about。这里需要注意的是the books （that）James Baldwin wrote in France,这里省略了一个that，因此这个that从句修饰的books做的是后面wrote in的宾语的，这个时候就能省。
C.    While修饰的是前面的过去分词written，即在法国的期间被写，但是实际上通过句子，我们可以得知，while是想修饰the books JB wrote这样整个事情。其次，while in France这个句子的省略也不清楚，这里没有主语也没有谓语，那么主谓就找所修饰的对象的主谓语，但是这个修饰的是written这个词，所以不对，就是它是省略的是主句的主语和谓语，还原后意思也不对。
D.    While修饰的是前面的过去分词written，即在法国的期间被写，但是实际上通过句子，我们可以得知，while是想修饰the books JB wrote这样整个事情。

RamosZou · 发表于 2017-2-20 11:32:17

by the way, 刚刚只是解释了每个选项，忘记回答你的问题啦，这个he肯定是指代JB这个啊，因为整个while从句都是用来修饰wrote这个动作的，而wrote这个动作是JB发出的，所以肯定是指的JB

JERRYISCH · 发表于 2017-2-28 13:10:49

此处的指代不清在GMAT中是次要错误，相比于其他选项。GMAT对指代并没有很强的要求。
如RON神所说：
When it comes to pronouns, just 3 questions:
1/ Is the meaning of the pronoun obvious in context?
2/ Is there a noun?
3/ Does the noun match the pronoun (in terms of singular/plural)?
If the answers are yes, yes, and yes, you win -- the pronoun is fine.

On the gmat, "pronoun ambiguity" is not really a thing.
Theoretically, if you were given a sentence in which it's genuinely impossible to tell the antecedent of a pronoun (e.g., "Sharon was talking to Lisa about her children"), then, sure. But GMAC hasn't done that yet.

(If your requirement for pronouns were that strict -- i.e., if you actually demanded that there be no other plural nouns in the entire sentence in order to use "they" correctly -- then pronouns would become almost impossible to use.)

shenpo · 发表于 2017-2-28 18:12:40

谢谢各位啦，我懂了

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