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dreadpower

31.A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
（A）A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
(B) After passing through a red giant stage, depending on its mass, a star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(D) Mass determines whether a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.

     答案是D，没问题
     这里对分词的修饰产生了疑问
    （1）：选项A中其他错误都不管，depending on mass可以修饰那些？？优先修饰哪个？？
     （2）：选项B中其他错误都不管，depending on its mass修饰什么？？
      
      语法上是不是应该是这样：分词在句首，修饰主语，逻辑主语=句子主语
                                          分词在句中，修饰最靠近的名词，
      分词在句末，可以做伴随动作，逻辑主语=句子主语
                         或做伴随结果，有因果关系
      那分词在句末，语法上是否可以修饰前面的名词？？？？
      例如：In the fall of 1985, only 10 percent of the women entering college planned to major in education, while 28 percent chose business, making it the most popular major for women as well as for men.
      这里的making单纯从语法的角度考虑（不出于逻辑考虑），能不能修饰business

bigcamel

我的看法是：a中depending on mass 优先修饰after it passes through...
b中depneding on its mass 是一个所谓的摇摆结构，即可修饰前句，也可修饰后据，所以不好
粉刺在句么，若前面有逗号，应修饰前面的句子

dreadpower

那就是说In the fall of 1985, only 10 percent of the women entering college planned to major in education, while 28 percent chose business, making it the most popular major for women as well as for men，这里的making绝对不能修饰不能修饰business，对吗？？

bigcamel

我是这么认为

dreadpower

谢谢BIGCAMEL指点，我回去找点例子来看

joe11

depending on its mass 是如何 swing 的呢？

谁可能是 depending 的逻辑主语呢？如果是 a star, 那么，

A star depending on a star's mass, a star will compress itself into ... 逻辑上合理么？

LES

B) After passing through a red giant stage, depending on its mass, a star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.

这个选项是典型的："squinting modifier"修饰，请参考OG245的解释：

245. Unlike Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system that dominated the music of the postwar period, Bartok founded no school and left behind only a handful of disciples.

(A) Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system that dominated
(B) Schoenberg and his twelve-tone system which dominated
(C) Schoenberg, whose twelve-tone system dominated
(D) the twelve-tone system of Schoenberg that has dominated（C）
(E) Schoenberg and the twelve-tone system, dominating

C, the best answer, is the only choice that makes a logical comparison: Unlike Schoenberg,... Bartok. In A, B, and D, Bartok, a person, is compared either to Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system or to Schoenberg and his twelve-tone system as a unit. Such comparisons are neither logically sound nor semantically parallel. Consequently, A and D illogically suggest that Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system founded a school and left behind many disciples. Choice B suggests that Schoenberg and his twelve-tone system together accomplished these feats. In E, the comparison is illogical and the modification is ambiguous. Schoenberg and his system, as a unit, are not only compared to Bartok, an individual, but also credited with having formed a school. The verb phrase dominating... is called a “squinting modifier (a modifier (as often in *getting dressed often is a nuisance*) so placed in a sentence that it can be interpreted as modifying either what precedes or what follows)” because it looks in both directions: given the structure of the sentence, it could be meant to modify either Schoenberg and the twelve-tone system or Bartok.

joe11

LES 太cool 了， 欧的 OG 还是读得不够呀。

谢谢谢谢！！

littlemuddie

谢谢 LES 的教导。厉害！

lilyzy

谢谢LES, 也解了我的疑问.