XDF-S19-T2,rising inventories，can/possibly？

isuffering

XDF-S19-T2,“rising inventories”单复数？can”v.s.“possibly”？

2.Rising inventories, * when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead * to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.


（A）when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead
（B）when not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, possibly leads
（C）when they were unaccompanied by corresponding sales increases, can lead
（D）if not accompanied by correspondingly increased sales, possibly leads
（E）if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, can lead

The answer is (E).


The subject of the sentence is “rising inventories”,

Someone said it is复数, then the predicate "leads" is not correct, then kill choice (B)(D).

But
Anotherone said it is单数,considering "rising inventories"as a whole，then "leads" is no problem.

The problem of (B)(D) is "possibly", since the meaning of "can "and "possibly "are different,  
("can" means“能力”“能够做某事” ,while "possibly" means " 概率上做某事的可能性"，“可能地”)

then "possibly" can't replace "can", then kill choice(B)(D).


Thus comes my question,
  
Is“rising inventories”in the sentence  单数or 复数?

How to understand such a phrase as " v-ing + pls"  when there seems to be a conflict between its logical meaning and its form?

Is the the above expalaination of the difference between "can" and "possibly" right?


can anyone help answer the questions? thanks in advance.

bzd2007

老贴了，但是为了给像我一样的后来人一些方便，我说一下我的想法，

possibly leads 错在时态上，如果不用情态动词，就应该用will。

rising inventeries我的感觉应该是单数，因为是存货的提高，而不是提高的存货。如果强调存货，应该用the rising inventeries。当然，我的这个观点也是有弱点的，就是“rising cost"那道题，解释里面明确说，rise有名词性，因此很少使用rising 代替rise。

顶起来，希望有人能讨论一下。

JorieSong

1）同问如LZ：rising inventories 是复数？ （OG12 page 690 12 D解释为复数-不解）

2) why " correspondingly increased sales " is wrong, but " corresponding increases in sales " is right?

Thank you for your help.

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AlienX

1. rising inventories中的rising是做形容詞修inventories, 所以是複數.
可是不代表所有verb-ing都是個形容詞, for instance:
Studying standardized tests puts most test takers to sleep.
2. OG說"correspondingly increased sales"是awkward/unclear, 可是不是too obvious to me...等NN來說

Bianshaozhe

好厉害好厉害： rising inventories中的rising是做形容詞修inventories, 所以是複數，谢谢喽

mimi06

Bianshaozhe 发表于 2012-8-6 07:02
好厉害好厉害： rising inventories中的rising是做形容詞修inventories, 所以是複數，谢谢喽 ...

rise不及物，所以只能作形容词