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flywood

154. In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Virginia, stunned his family, friends, and neighbors by filing a deed of emancipa­tion, setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered his property.

(A)  setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered

(B)  setting free more than the 500 slaves legally considered as

(C)  and set free more than 500 slaves, who were legally considered as

(D)  and set free more than the 500 slaves who were legally considered

(E)   and he set free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered as

This sentence requires that the participial phrase setting free... connect to the gerund construction by filing a deed...; it was the filing of a deed that made possible the setting free .... 分词伴随表结果请问分词在句尾用逗号隔开,是否是修饰离它最近的动词,这个动词有可能不是谓语动词Choices A and B establish this connection, but only A, the best choice, completes the participial phrase appropri­ately. In choices B and D the misconstructed phrases set[ting] free more than the 500 slaves ... mistakenly suggest that Carter set free slaves that were not his own. 今天问了一个A和ONE的区别,现在来了个THE,这里A和B所表达的意思到底有什么细微的差别:一个是他的超过500个的奴隶,一个是500个他的奴隶吗?

rhod

参考以前的帖子：http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=53280

flywood

thanks

agk99

個人認為，這先得看consider的用法，consider 後面不加as，所以先刪 BCE

接下來就是你提到的AB差異，也就是the more than 500 slaves(他所擁有超過500位的slaves)和 more than the 500 slaves(超過他擁有的 500位slaves)

就句意來說，肯定是一次釋放所有的slaves，但總不可能釋放的slaves比他擁有的還多吧，也就是不可能用more than the 500...若真是如此，豈不是讓人要接下去問，"除了釋放slaves之外，他還放走了誰"

請指教

bigtone

Thanks agk99. I finally understand the difference between A and B today.

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