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vincent0330

以下是引用arundhati在2004-7-10 8:21:00的发言：
那如果E把单数改成复数是不是就可以了？我昨天问了几个native speaker，他们都是第一反应就是E，这让我有些惊讶。问问原因，都说这个破折号后跟including别扭。看来他们对大框架的要求高于小错误。不过这题想多了挺confusing的，不知考试会不会碰到这种题～

well, asking the natives isn't always a good way to discover the  formal English though some oral usage can get by this way.

I remember three months ago I have asked my ESL teacher about the 杨鹏难句, nevertheless, the answer is " creative writing"--- which means they do think this is the formal writing skill.

sigh........

arundhati

谢谢狗狗的详解，我开始和你想的一样，只是看这题看多了，想的也多了，不过这题应该是中等难度题，没必要深究了

谢谢大家指点～

mariezhu

这道up一下。

今天看到时很困惑，看了大家的讨论，倾向于说black americans理由是前面是three best novels不过偶认为这里的focus是前面的one of 所以感觉上a black american好些，不过问题是E，the others being好像有点不像ets的风格，然而从语法角度讲这种说法也是成立的，大家能再讨论下么？

LES

A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans

written by 这个后置定语是就近修饰three best novels的，所以是Black Americans.

rt316

哈哈，太好了，偶也是今天再次看这题，坚定不移地选E，从一般认识来看，novel总是一个人搞定，所以这里的关系是一对一关系，参OG252；而且including的修饰对象也不如E表达的明确；当然，偶还认为E的sb's sth是标准的表达而且平行。

252. Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a bicycle.

(A)  Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a bicycle.

(B)  Out of every four, three automobile owners in the United States also owns a bicycle.

(C)  Bicycles are owned by three out of every four owners of automobiles in the United States.

(D)  In the United States, three out of every four automobile owners owns bicycles.

(E)   Out of every four owners of automobiles in the United States, bicycles are also owned by three.

A, the best choice, is concise, idiomatic, and maintains subject-verb agreement. In B, Out of every four, three is unidiomatic. The singular verb owns does not agree with its plural subject, three ... owners. The passive construction in C (Bicycles are owned by) is cumbersome and does not contribute meaningfully to the sentence. The shift to plural Bicycles detracts from clarity by suggesting that multiple bicycles are owned by each person in question. In D, the singular owns does not agree with its plural subject three... owners. Furthermore, the plural bicycles detracts from clarity by suggesting that multiple bicycles are owned by each person in question. In E, the phrase beginning Out of every four ... cannot properly modify bicycles, and the passive construction (bicycles are also owned) is awkward and does not contribute meaningfully to the sentence. The plural nouns bicycles and automobiles suggest imprecisely that each person owns more than one of each.

LES

偶还是坚持选B。

这和one of sth. that从句的结构是一样的that从句就近修饰sth.，这里只是把that从句改成过去分词做后置定语。

tianwan

B的Native Son by Richard Wright是不是标准的用法呢？

LES

以下是引用tianwan在2004-7-27 10:26:00的发言：

B的Native Son by Richard Wright是不是标准的用法呢？

这点不确定，但是others being 是不标准的表达，偶确定。

rt316

以下是引用LES在2004-7-28 10:42:00的发言：
这点不确定，但是others being 是不标准的表达，偶确定。

为什么？独立主格，表达挺清楚的。

LES

是看着being不顺眼！

stoneren，能讲讲Native Son by Richard Wright到底是不是标准的表达呢？谢谢！