Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer. 我有两个问题: 1、这个地方的ranks为什么不用成is ranked,我理解为应该是“被列为”? 2、OG中对“together with its serious complications”的解释是:the phrase following diabetes is set off by a pair of commas, indicating that it is off by a pair of commas, indicating that it is descriptive information that may be dropped from the sentence, it is not a part of the subject.以后我怎样可以判断它属于,还是不属于主语? 菜鸟一只,各位见笑了,望指教:)
看到你的解释很详细,觉得很受用。
By the way,我留言的意图是,我觉得有一个地方我和你的观点不同,
即使去掉逗号,变成了Diabetes together with its serious complications,它的谓语动词仍然是单数,因为together with 要随前一致,则依照这道题,谓语动词仍然要和diabetes一致 还是使用单数。