补充题250-T40

40.   The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114 to $220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy.

(A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy笨拙/代词无指代

(B) with what was a decrease in what they were able to buy笨拙/代词无指代/两个what/be able to

(C) having decreased that which they could buy分词的动作发起者错

(D) decreasing in purchasing power分词的动作发起者错（E）

(E) with a decrease in purchasing power

Choices A, B, and C incorrectly use a plural pronoun, their or they to refer to a singular noun, worker. （代词单复数不一致）Moreover, A and B are wordy and awkwardly constructed, （笨拙）and C wrongly asserts that the average worker decreased the amount or value of what could be bought. （逻辑意思错）D misrepresents the intended meaning by saying that at the end of the decade, the average worker—not the money—was decreasing in purchasing power. （？？？）E is correct answer for this easy question.

D misrepresents the intended meaning by saying that at the end of the decade, the average worker—not the money—was decreasing in purchasing power. （？？？）

现分在句末 没有逗号 要优先修饰前面的名词 为何ETS的解释是修饰的是主语呢

有没有什么原则能解决这个问题啊

谢谢

    我觉得ETS的意思是：decreasing in purchasing power按照逻辑意思应该修饰money，但是按照D这样的用法，就是修饰worker

    注意misrepresents the intended meaning

dreadpower  我的问题是

40.   The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114 to $220, yet the average worker ended the decade decreasing in purchasing powe

decreasing 前面有名词 而且没有逗号 应该优先修饰前面的名词 而OG的解释是修饰的是主语

这怎么回事啊

谢谢

yet the average worker ended the decade decreasing ...是一个完整的结构，ended作为谓语动词而不是过分。在这种结构中decreasing从语法角度看，可以修饰的对象有两个：worker或decade；或许困惑你的是：为什么decreasing可以修饰worker？解释是：这是yet the average worker decreasing ... ended the decade的倒装结构，因为1－虽然见得不多，但这种倒装结构是可以被接受的；2－如dreadpower所言，decade和decreasing之间实再是无法建立逻辑关系；3－worker和decreasing之间可以存在逻辑关系，但比之money和decreasing之间的逻辑关系，前者显得逻辑性较差。

天啊 stoneren

你解释太好

我就是没有读出倒装