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以下是引用mzyzhu在2003-7-8 21:01:00的发言：
thanks for the example. but it is not very convincing for several reasons.
first, ETS neither explicit nor implicit tells us that that clause is to modify the bridge.
second, from the logic meaning, you may agree either that "a bridge of land" cannot be part or that it is the land not the bridge once exist. we use "bridge of land" to describe the shape of the land, so the kernel of this phrase is "land", in my perspective.
please give some more examples if you have.
"Between Siberia and Alaska", known as two places which locate in different continents, exlicitly indicates that there was a bridge once existed,so the relative clause is supposed to modify "bridge" rather than "land".And we can also make sure that the central word is not "land".
another example:OG 220
Over a period of a hundred years beginning in 1788, England exiled some 160,000 criminals to Australia.
What do think is modified by beginning..., period or a hundred years?
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