In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, testified in Patent Office hearings that, to test the system, a colleague of his had managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff's laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845 and now included in virtually every textbook of elementary physics.
请教og12-41页40题 40. In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, testified in Patent Office hearings that, to test the system, a colleague of his had managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff’s laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845 and now included in virtually every textbook of elementary physics.
(A) laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845 and (B) laws, which was an observation about electric current first made in 1845 and it is (C) laws, namely, it was an observation about electric current first made in 1845 and (D) laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845, it is (E) laws that was an observation about electric current, first made in 1845, and is
正确答案A。
我的问题是E选项中,og的解释,关于最后的is,og说is violates parallelism,为什么呢?因为是now included,为什么不用现在时的be动词呢?如果去掉E这个first made...,然后E改成laws that was an....and are对不对呢?我关键是不明白这个is为什么violates parallelism,不是laws that was...and is...嘛?求指点~~
1) 2楼的关于平行的解释是对的。 2)an observation是作为one of ...'s law中one的同位语,同位语(还有其他所有的名词的修饰成分)可以修饰A OF B的A或者B,具体看A of B哪个是核心词。 3)这个我也有点疑问。。 名词的修饰成分包括同位语都是可以跳跃修饰核心词的。。 而且PREP和manhattan上都说which修饰对象在独立主语/独立宾语结构中可以不用紧邻,而根据逻辑含义判断。 所以我想应该这里managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff’s laws可能就是既非独立主语 也不是独立宾语的状况,所以which只能就近修饰,不能跳跃修饰one,而变成了修饰laws。就不一致了。