GWD 21-41

sealeaf

GWD 21-41

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to place restrictions on both diesel fuel and diesel engines has sparked a counterattack by the oil industry, saying that the move will exacerbate the nation’s fuel supply problems.

A.     on both diesel fuel and diesel engines has sparked a counterattack by the oil industry, saying

B.     on both diesel fuel and engines have sparked the oil industry to counterattack, and they say

C.     on both diesel fuel and diesel engines has sparked a counterattack by the oil industry, which says

D.     both on diesel fuel and engines has sparked the oil industry to a counterattack, saying  (C)

E .  both on diesel fuel and diesel engines have sparked the oil industry to counterattack, and it says

oil industry可以做 says的主语吗？A里的saying的主语是不是指前面整个句子？我错选成A了。请教！

julia_ju

say的发出者是oil industry

如果是用saying，则动作的发出者就变成了句子的主语The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal 了。

sealeaf

哦，the move will应该是oil industry做主语比较好。

可是，怎么判定saying 是指代前面句子的主语，还是指代前面整个句子？

julia_ju

saying是个动词，怎么能“指代”呢？

你要考虑的是它的逻辑主语。

不能单凭形式来判断了。如果单纯从形式判断，saying、which says都可以，但是看内容就同了。

leonchan

楼上说的没错 逻辑意思是最终目标

desertroset

现在分词放在句尾，修饰对象会引起歧义，可以是修饰就近名词，也可以作为伴随状语修饰整个句子。