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haoweinano

在本句的逻辑意思中，which是应该指non-Hispanic Whites的，因为这些人才能amount to 的，而a minority 是不可以amount to的。而ABC中which后面都是amounts，所以主谓不一致，若指代a minority意思又不对，所以只能在DE里选。

糊涂的小黑

从句和分词，都好容易有争论啊，这个学习了。

thunder079

以下是引用oceanalma在2005-10-10 19:10:00的发言：
很想知道

amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago

中的down.......是什么成份，amounting.....是伴随,好像这个down也是个伴随吗，怎么连个伴随，好不惯阿

请指教

时隔三年，同问此惑...
UP...

-- by 会员 susanxu9 (2008/10/2 15:35:00)

akshayanand05 wrote:
Sorry for touching this long discussed thread again.

Had a question about the antecedent of the last modifier (down from what it was a decade ago by nearly three-quarters). Is this modifier an absolute phrase or an appositive ?


it's neither; "down" is an adjective, so it's ... um ... an adjective modifier.
i don't actually know whether it's really called that (dirty secret: i hardly know any grammatical names at all, unless i google them before posting), but it works in the same way as other modifiers that start with adjectives.  these are somewhat flexible and can  modify either the subject of the sentence or a noun that's closer, depending on context.

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