A recent court decision has qualified a 1998 ruling that workers cannot be laid off if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will be safe, provided that their performance remains satisfactory.
A recent court decision has qualified a 1998 ruling that workers cannot be laid off if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will be safe, provided that their performance remains satisfactory.
(A) if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will
(B) if they are given reason for believing that their jobs would still
(C) having been given reason for believing that their jobs would
(D) having been given reason to believe their jobs to
(E) given reason to believe that their jobs will still
答案是A。
在CDE中,OG给出的解释是having/given之前没有逗号,所以直接修饰之前的名词 laid off。在论坛里面comma+v-ing的讨论比较多,但是关于没有逗号的modifier的讨论比较少。
所以我的问题是:1、是不是只要没有逗号,名词后面的现在分词/过去分词,都是直接修饰之前的名词的?
2、A中if引导的虚拟语气,为什么后面用的是will,不是应该would更合适吗?