看了这么多帖子,这个帖子最解惑,谢谢各位前辈。 通篇看了下来,我觉得OG的规则是which一般都是修饰其前紧接的名词,至于具体是“A of B”中的A还是B,看具体情况而定,比如说逻缉,比如说单复数等等。 但是如果which和其前面修饰的词中有一个插入语的话,(因为OG讲插入语可以删掉不影响句子结构),这时就要具体问题具体分析: 例一: From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or … 从语法来讲,which既可修饰ribs和rails of cedar也可修饰canoe,但前者不可能carry four persons,从逻缉上来说所以which修饰canoe。 例二: "..workers,compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which cost the US ...," compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse也是插入语,也可删,但删掉后which直接修饰workers,不对,因为修饰workers需用who,所以which毫无疑问地修饰effects of drug and alcohol abuse,又因为cost是复述,所以which修饰effects而不是abuse。 例三: "as well as whether, colder and wetter than usual in the region, which slowed down the sales...." 从语法上来说,which即可以修饰region,又可以修饰whether,但到底是region还是whether slowed down sales让人有些不清楚,产生两者都可能但好像whether要正确的感觉,这种感觉正是OG常说的unclear的表现,所以OG说which的reference是unclear。
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