[求助]OG11-67

67.   Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food

(C) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food

(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

Logical predication + Idiom

The original sentence contains an incorrect idiom and a misplaced modifier. The correct idiom in the active voice is one attributes x (an effect) to y (a cause).

In the passive voice, x (the effect) is attributed to y (the cause). The modifying phrase (in attributing...) incorrectly describes perpetrators when it should describe defense attorneys. The best way to correct the sentence is to transform the modifying phrase into a subordinate clause that uses the idiom correctly: criminal or delinquent behavior (x) is attributed to (verb phrase) an allergy to some food (y).

A     Misplaced modifier; incorrect idiom

B      Correct. In this sentence, the modification error has been eliminated with the use of the correct idiom, is attributed to.

C     Modifier describes perpetrators, not attorneys; wordy and imprecise

D     X is attributed as the cause of y is not the correct Idiom

E      Modifier incorrectly describes perpetrators, idiom is misused

The correct answer is B.

In choices A, C, and E, in attributing ... behavior modifies the perpetrators, producing the illogical statement that the perpetrators rather than the defense attorneys are attributing behavior to food allergies. Choice C is also wordy, and attributing ... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form of the expression, one attributes x, an effect, to y, a cause; or, if a passive construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification error by using a passive construction (in which the attributors are not identified), but attributed x as the cause of y is unidiomatic. Choice B is best.　（OG10的解释）

为什么OG11说A项使用了incorrect idiom呢？OG10并没有指出A存在这个问题。

单从attribute crimial or deliquent behavior to some food allergy看，它符合attribute x (effect) to y (cause)的习惯用法。。。

some food allergy(某种食物过敏）也不是incorrect idiom呀。

请达人赐教～～～

同意LZ哦。