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六根清净 · 发表于 2011-5-4 23:01:22

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Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

A. Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering

B. Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886 and outnumbering

D. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering

E. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

我的问题是，which引导定语从句，which应该修饰离它最近的名词，这样E选项当中的which应该修饰Dickinson这个人啊？但是which逻辑上是应该修饰letters的，这个是怎么回事啊？

longyan009 · 发表于 2011-5-4 23:11:58

坤kun · 发表于 2011-5-4 23:17:35

定语从句修饰人应该用who的，所以这里的which就可以跳跃修饰letters，个人理解……

wen801 · 发表于 2011-5-5 05:01:58

刚好我也看到这道题，看到曼哈顿论坛里Ron对这道题的解释，非常有用：）

"occasionally, when it is completely unambiguous, "which" can refer to a whole NOUN PHRASE that immediately precedes the comma."
有的时候，当在完全没有歧义的情况下，which可以指代前面的整个名词词组，也就是x of y的形式。

“in this case, this noun phrase is "X's letters to Y". (note that this noun phrase, as a unit, does immediately precede the comma.)”
注意到这道题里，这个名词词组"X's letters to Y是作为一个整体，并且直接紧跟在逗号的前面，并且which指代这个人在这句话里是完全没有逻辑的，所以这里的which就可以指代前面整个名词词组。

Here's the basic summary:

if you have "X of Y, which..."

then:
* if Y works as the antecedent of "which", then "which" should stand for Y.
* if Y doesn't work as the antecedent, but "X of Y" DOES work, then "which" can stand for "X of Y".

当看到“X of Y, which..”的形式的时候，如果它可以指代前面的Y，那么它就指代前面的Y；如果Y不能作为先行词，但是X of Y可以，那么它就可以指代X of Y.

原稿的讨论地址：http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/emily-dickinson-s-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson-were-t6529.html

haohao90s · 发表于 2011-5-5 20:48:03

which 是不能指代D 的，这样说吧，逗号前是一个介宾结构，这时候定语从句只修饰这个介宾的核心词就是letter。OG后面解释几乎都是这样，题目也是这样用的。

yanxihua00 · 发表于 2011-5-5 21:40:44

我的做法：CD没谓语，B呢，were 和 Outnumber 中间没有and 链接，剩下AE，A中的Outnumbering 是对句子还是对词呢，不明确，剩下E，end～

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