og16-sc71 v-ed的修饰对象

sgao003

71.Many of the earliest known images of Hindu deities in India date from the timeof the Kushan Empire, fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura orGandharan grey schist.

(A)Empire, fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or

(B)Empire, fashioned from either the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

(C)Empire, either fashioned from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or

(D)Empire and either fashioned from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

(E)Empire and were fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

Logicalpredication; Parallelism

Thesentence makes two claims about the earliest known images of Hindu deities inIndia: They date from the Kushan Empire, and they are made from sandstone orschist. The clearest, most effective way to incorporate these two claims into asingle sentence is to provide two parallel predicates for the single subject,the earliest known images of Hindu deities in India. The two options of media,presented as either/or choices, must also be given in parallel structure:either from . . . or from . . . or from either . . . or. . .

APlacement of the modifier fashioned . . . suggests that the Empire (the closestnoun), not the images of the deities, was fashioned out of these materials; toparallel either from, the preposition from should also follow or.

BParallelism requires that either precede the first appearance of from or thatthe second appearance of from be eliminated.

CAs in (A) and (B), the placement of the modifier after Empire is misleading;parallelism requires that the phrase fashioned from, or another comparable verband preposition, follow or.

DParallelism requires that a verb follow or, since a verb follows either.

ECorrect. Two verbs, date and were fashioned, introduce parallel predicates forthe subject, earliest known images; the choices of media are correctlypresented with the structure either from . . . or from.

Thecorrect answer is E.


明白答案选e，但不太明白解析a中说的，fashioned修饰Empire而不修饰 images。这里的fashioned被逗号隔开，我觉得他的发出者应该既有可能是Empire也有可能是images。

我做题的时候经常搞不清楚这些主句前后的doing／done和which从句到底修饰主语还是修饰他紧跟的词抑或是整句话，求大神指点或者甩给我一个有相关语法解释的传送门，不胜感激！！！

Fiona09

分词用来修饰与它最近的名词，而images比Empire离得远，所以这里fashioned修饰的肯定是Kushan Empire。

而lz问的which，是要分两种情况的——限制性定语从句和非限制性定语从句，非限是对前面整句的解释或说明，限制性定语从句中的which则是就近指代。

希望能帮到LZ~~

sgao003

Fiona09 发表于 2016-9-7 09:58
分词用来修饰与它最近的名词，而images比Empire离得远，所以这里fashioned修饰的肯定是Kushan Empire。

而 ...

谢谢fiona～btw，我也叫fiona

那所以分词修饰的话就是不存在歧义的情况，都是修饰与他最近的对吗？

Fiona09

sgao003 发表于 2016-9-7 13:40
谢谢fiona～btw，我也叫fiona

那所以分词修饰的话就是不存在歧义的情况，都是修饰与他最近的对吗？ ...

nice to meet u, Fiona~~

对，就近修饰~

lisa001

comma+fashioned 在这里作非限定性定语，可以用which引导的非限定语从句想想是不是要修饰它touch的名词？