og11紫书57，E为何不对？百思不得其解

camilla78

57。A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures.

A,if there is a lack of some other doctor ot testify

B,unless there will be another doctor to testify

C,without another doctor's testimony

D,should there be no testimony from some other doctor

E,lacking another doctor to testify

答案是c，为何e不对？石林不是说动词优先于抽象名词么？请教nn，不胜感激！

camilla78

自己顶啊，免得沉了

wjjjojo

我觉得lacking 在这里是修饰 damage 的， doing 在句中紧跟修饰对象的

而without 修饰主语，修饰关系就明确了

camilla78

介词短语可以不紧跟修饰对象吗？还是仅仅without如此呢？

popray

同问

另外：some other 后边跟单数还是复数亚？如果有谓语呢？