OG 2018分册的第273题，关于modifier的小问题

Rachelful · 发表于 2017-11-22 18:11:47

打扰一下各位,

Rachelful · 发表于 2017-11-22 18:13:14

In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for their employee's paychecks, assigned by them to the United Nations.

(A) for their employee's paychecks, assigned by them
(B) for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned
(C) for the paychecks of their employees, having been assigned
(D) in place of their employee's paychecks, for those of them assigned
(E) in place of the paychecks of their employees to have been assigned by them

最近在整理自己的千行，错误选项想每一个问题都找出来，看A的时候始终想不通为什么OG的解释要说assigned by them是用来形容paychecks的呢？我是想着说，这种comma+participle modifier应该是一个伴随状语啊，主语w为啥不是some governments啊？

求好心人指点一二

你是认真的吗 · 发表于 2017-11-23 08:10:08

A for their employee's paychecks, assigned by them

如果像楼主说的一样，assigned by them作伴随状语，逻辑主语是some governments，那么此时them就指代不明了，因为在them之前有governments 和 paychecks两个复数主语

而且，通常情况下，逗号加过去分词形式更倾向于就近修饰名词。如有疏漏之处还望各位纠正！

Rachelful · 发表于 2017-11-23 14:52:16

你是认真的吗发表于 2017-11-23 08:10
A for their employee's paychecks, assigned by them

如果像楼主说的一样，assigned by them作伴随状语 ...

谢谢你的回复，实际上我就是根据them的指代不明排除掉选项A的

因为我想的是如果assigned修饰的是主句的主语some governments，那不可能是governments assigned by them（governments or paychecks）,语意上都说不通，所以就排除了这个选项；

[原始] OG 2018分册的第273题，关于modifier的小问题

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