关于one of ＋that verb的单复数用法

chasemba

225. Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that still has a sizable wolf population. and where this predator remains the archenemy of cattle and sheep.

(A)              that still has a sizable wolf population, and where

(B)              that still has a sizable wolf population, where

(C)             that still has a sizable population of wolves, and where

(D)             where the population of wolves is still sizable;

(E)              where there is still a sizable population of wolves and where

上题中的that修饰的是Minnesota ， 为什么不是就近修饰forty-eight states 哪? 这直接影响到that后单复数的选择。那位NN请说明一下什么时候that就近修饰，什么时候不就近修饰。是应为那个only和the only的缘故吗？这个语法点不清楚。

PT2218

記得某位NN的文章裡提到。      A of B ，此時A為重心， that優先修飾A。

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-9-16 22:50:37编辑过]

chasemba

1.        Biologists believe that they have found one of the substances that tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain quiescent in the earliest phases of an embryo’s development.

(A) tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain

(B) tell individual genes both at which time they should become active or should remain

(C) tells individual genes both when to become active or remain

(D) tells individual genes both when to become active or when to remain（A）

(E) will tell an individual gene both about when it should become active and remain

可是在这道题目中that修饰的是substances .

pinkpiggy

是不是因为第一道题里面有一个only啊，如果是复数形式修饰states，逻辑上好像有问题啦。,

流沙

我这个也一直没弄清楚，等待高人解释！

携隐

one of+复数名词,that修饰复数名词.the only one of+复数名词,that修饰the one.参见大全885 section 04第21题:

21.  With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting（C）

(E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

要从句意上来理解,体会句子想表达什么意思.当用A is one of+复数名词(暂且称为Bs)时,句子是想说,"A是众多B里的一个",句子强调重心是A的归属:是B的一个,而不是其他的一个(例如,我们只会说,zeros是众多牛人中的一个,而不会说,zeros,很牛,是众多人中的一个),这个句子实际上已经完整了,如果要对这个句子作进一步的解释,那就是要解释"A是什么B里的一个?",而不是"什么样的A是B里的一个?",因此that定语从句必然修饰B.如上题.

当用A is the only one of B时,句子的强调重心移到了only上,表达的是"A是B中唯一的一个"(这时我们就可以说,zeros是众多人中唯一一个牛的),这个句子显然不完整,无法表达出其原来想表达的意思--为什么A是唯一的一个?唯一在哪里?因此进一步的说明一定是针对A的,从而定语从句修饰A.

做题时只要记住第一行的规律就好了.

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-9-17 20:31:27编辑过]

rhod

携隐's explanation is quite clear.

携隐

流沙

哇，解释的好清楚，谢谢～～～

携隐

刚想上来补充点东西,流沙MM就把贴顶出来了,心有灵犀啊．

我补充一下,区分以上两种情况应该看the而不是看only,也就是说,如果是only/but one A of B that的话,that从句仍然是要用复数修饰B的,只有当the only one A of B时,that从句才用单数修饰A.大家千万不要被only和but混淆了!(我做例子那题就被but混淆了一下)