关于PREP209题有一个小问请教！多谢！

莽莽要上7

同志们在刷SC中碰到一个问题求探讨~
prep209. (T-3-Q7)
In Scotland, the number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, by pollution, and by various other threats to the fish’s habitat.
A.    number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
B.    number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled,
C.    numbers of wild salmon has been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
D.    wild salmon’s numbers are reduced by deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled,  
E.    wild salmon’s numbers have been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,

只有一个问题求解：
manhattan里头说有时候会把带of的介词短语通过修饰词提前，转换为形容词短语。但是of是带有数量，时间，计量性质的固定搭配就能改了一定要用of结构么？这里为什么会把the number of改成wild salmon's numbers呢？如果没有红字划线的地方不给提示的话我肯定就选错了。
那么如果把A改成：
A.    number of wild salmon has been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, 这样对么？

多谢啊！

莽莽要上7

Thanks a lot！！！

DUKB24

嘿嘿！多谢解答~~但我还有个问题~那么这里为什么会把the number of改成wild salmon's numbers呢？是不是有逻辑上的问题呀？the number of XXX 这个量被减少是不是不符逻辑呢？是不是只能是numbers（数）能被减少而量不可以呢？


thanks again！

-- by 会员 莽莽要上7 (2012/9/5 22:05:07)

没问题，the number of 和 XXX‘s number都是表示数量的减少（只是后者比较awkward，但不是incorrect！）
A的致命问题就是S-V agreement 和parallelism，这两个都是不能被容忍的错误

莽莽要上7

嘿嘿！多谢解答~~但我还有个问题~那么这里为什么会把the number of改成wild salmon's numbers呢？是不是有逻辑上的问题呀？the number of XXX 这个量被减少是不是不符逻辑呢？是不是只能是numbers（数）能被减少而量不可以呢？


thanks again！

DUKB24

同志们在刷SC中碰到一个问题求探讨~
prep209. (T-3-Q7)
In Scotland, the number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, by pollution, and by various other threats to the fish’s habitat.
A.    number of wild salmon have been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
B.    number of wild salmon is reduced because deep-sea and coastal netting is not controlled,
C.    numbers of wild salmon has been reduced because of uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,
D.    wild salmon’s numbers are reduced by deep-sea and coastal netting that is not controlled,  
E.    wild salmon’s numbers have been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting,

只有一个问题求解：
manhattan里头说有时候会把带of的介词短语通过修饰词提前，转换为形容词短语。但是of是带有数量，时间，计量性质的固定搭配就能改了一定要用of结构么？这里为什么会把the number of改成wild salmon's numbers呢？如果没有红字划线的地方不给提示的话我肯定就选错了。
那么如果把A改成：
A.    number of wild salmon has been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, 这样对么？

多谢啊！

-- by 会员 莽莽要上7 (2012/9/5 16:37:10)

yes
and it is better than the original correct choice