og11-51

winbie

51.   The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month.

    

(A)    world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month

    

(B)     world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival's month

    

(C)    world when they proclaimed a sacred truce for the festival month

    

(D)    world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival

    

(E)     world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival

正确答案是D。 但是不明白B的解释： it is not clear who would be doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phrase here.

不是说分词可以modify a clause 的马？ 不需要主语的马？谢谢

charlie6989

proclaiming 可修饰主词  The Olympic Games 也可能会修饰  states of the Greek world
,所以不清楚修饰对象 ,
D 则是由 for当连接词引导"句子" a sacred truce was proclaimed ,清楚明白

winbie

Thanks ch.
but, sometimes participle doesn't need a subject to modify. For example,
i travel a lot these days, making me feel tired.
Here, participle phrase doesn't have a subject.

(sorry to type english)

charlie6989

i think sometimes -ing can use to modify subject , object, or to modify firet sentence Verb to express a consequence

anything must look up the meaning of sentence .

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XuefeiJO

Personally speaking, the sentence intends to express a cause-effect relationship. Answer B clearly doesn't have that function.

winbie

yeah, i agree. the focus of the sentence it show cause-effect.