大全164--fewer和less的修饰

笨笨可可

1.        Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel.

(A) less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel

(B) fewer of certain pollutants than burning gasoline or diesel fuel do

(C) less of certain pollutants than gasoline or diesel fuel

(D) fewer of certain pollutants than does burning gasoline or diesel fuel（E）

(E) less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel

首先我对于D和E的看法是这样的。。D fewer修饰的是可数名词pullutants，than后面补足了助动词does，但是缺陷就是than后面不对称了。

E的看法是less of我认为修饰不可数名词，than后面对称，但是我认为最好补充出do。。

所以这都有问题，那不存在正确答案。。

open to dicusss.

AlienX

oops...看少了burn-ing =.=||

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-7-2 13:21:23编辑过]

dingxiang

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=23&replyid=214602&id=28829&page=1&skin=0&Star=2

try to read this post and see if it helps

dingxiang

借mm宝地来作个小总结,抛砖引玉, 大家讨论讨论哈~~~~~~~~

看了看历史帖子

查了查LDOCE

less
1
a) a smaller amount or not as much [≠ more]:
Doctors recommend eating less salt.
People today seem to have less time for each other.
Most of us got £4 an hour, but some received even less.
less of
        
The map covered less of the area than I'd thought.
Flying is less of a risk than driving.

few
1 [no comparative] a small number of things or people即作"少量"解释的时候,没有比较级

a few
        

I have to buy a few things at the supermarket.

Pam called to say she's going to be a few minutes late.

There were a few people sitting at the back of the hall.

There are
                    a few more
                things I'd like to discuss.

few of 所以这里的few of,没有fewer of的形式
I've read a few of her books.
I could suggest many different methods, but anyway, here are just a few.
There are only a very few (=not many) exceptions.
3 not many or hardly any people or things [≠ many]:
few of
Very few of the staff come from the local area.
Mr Wingate was full of explanations, but precious few (=hardly any) of them made sense.

综上所述,虽然OG里面明确less修饰不可数,fewer修饰可数,但是其实这道题目考的是less of 的词组, 所以也就没有less/fewer之争了

笨笨可可

不会啊，这里有than，肯定是比较级的比较。。所以不是单单的考less of和few of

AlienX

原句供參考:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1D6173AF932A05756C0A96F948260

NYTimes不一定對...因為我最近看到一本語法書,書中指出很多在NYTimes上錯的句子...

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dingxiang

以下是引用笨笨可可在2008-7-2 11:30:00的发言：

不会啊，这里有than，肯定是比较级的比较。。所以不是单单的考less of和few of

但是LDOCE上的 例子就是than比较啊

The map covered less of the area than I'd thought.  ---> 这个例句简直跟大全题目如出一辙, area也是可数名词, 但还是用了less of
Flying is less of a risk than driving.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-7-2 14:46:42编辑过]

AlienX

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&replyID=2493134&id=270063&skin=0

dingxiang

看了,不同意说less是修饰动词

我觉得还是修饰后面的名词, 相当于一个形容词词组做定语

笨笨可可

还是觉得这个句子不能单独从修饰句子看待。。up