Prep 关于annually的问题

阿霖

A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.
(A) per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as
(B) annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
(C) California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
(D) California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
(E) California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that
请问D选项的annually该怎么理解？
是指香烟的人均消费每年都从125下降到60，还是说年人均消费125packs呢？如果是后者的话为什么不是annual而是annually呢？
有点不太理解这边的意思，求大神指点。

阿霖

感觉annually可能是修饰over？

LIKEAGOLDEN

这里的over是介词，annually是副词，副词修饰介词不太对吧

LIKEAGOLDEN

从语法上讲，副词只能修饰动词、形容词、其他副词或全句。所以这里一定是修饰decline的，大概是一年中从over 125 减少到了60的意思吧。

loveeyore

D) Annually modified verb decline.                                                                                                                                             First (E) per capita and per person redundancy
Second, (E) is missing the essential phrase "a drop" in the last part. Without "a drop", it's unclear what the last phrase is modifying. If we read (E) literally, the last phrase is saying that "about 60" is twice as great as that in the nation, which is nonsensical.
Third, “that” does not have noun to represent.
A, B and C all begin with modification errors                                  from gmatclub and Ron

阿霖

loveeyore 发表于 2016-8-22 23:06
D) Annually modified verb decline.                                                                   ...

谢谢，我刚才去曼哈顿论坛看了一下，再补充一句RON关于annually的理解：The second is sort of weird/awkward (it would be better written as "per year"), but, fortunately, weirdness/awkwardness is not an exclusive basis upon which any given answer will be incorrect.

阿霖

LIKEAGOLDEN 发表于 2016-8-22 21:58
从语法上讲，副词只能修饰动词、形容词、其他副词或全句。所以这里一定是修饰decline的，大概是一年中从ove ...

谢谢，我刚刚看到RON说，这里的annually其实应该是说125 packs per year，这边用annually其实有点weird。