OG13 76题求助！

piggylele

xunzlyx 发表于 2013-8-16 14:31
有道理
可是即使是作者的推测，可是appear to 的主语是the Neanderthals ，主谓一致应该是主语决定谓语吧 ...

the Neanderthals 作为一个集合名词 谓语用复数形式

piggylele

xunzlyx 发表于 2013-8-16 14:31
有道理
可是即使是作者的推测，可是appear to 的主语是the Neanderthals ，主谓一致应该是主语决定谓语吧 ...

the Neanderthals 集合名词 谓语用复数

xunzlyx

piggylele 发表于 2013-8-16 14:45
the Neanderthals 集合名词 谓语用复数

Collective Nouns : Almost always singular

我不是说单复数的问题，我是说时态，appear这种形式是一般现在时，我觉得应该用过去时，因为N已经消亡了是过去的事了

zziinngg

xunzlyx 发表于 2013-8-16 14:12
思路很赞~

只是不明白，这样的话appear为什么不用过去式appeared

问题很好，我找了一下外国盆友也有同样的问题。然后Ron神给解答了，如下：
提问：Further , one question still remains , which construction is better in context
appear to have been equipped
appeared to have been equipped
Basically I wanted to know which is the correct verb tense here

解答：by default, "appear" is in the present tense, since we're talking about the way these things appear to present-day observers.

if there were a context that would place "appear" in the past, then you could use the past tense. for instance: to nineteenth-century observers, they appeared to have been equipped...
but, absent such a context, you should go with the present, for simplicity (the default assumption is that this "appears" to be the case to present observers).

in this case, you've also got parallelism between "appear" and "indicates", two descriptions that both describe observations made in the present.
since "indicates" is not underlined, that determines the tense context. so your other observation, which is made at the same time, should be parallel to it.

YvaineDing

jeffjarrett 发表于 2012-11-25 10:56
76. Combining enormous physical strength with higherintelligence, the Neanderthals appear a ...

那这种用法算不算是虚拟语气的一种呢？要表达的内容要不要跟事实情况相反？

cici简溪

赞 解释的好棒！！

Larissasafa

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g0418

jeffjarrett 发表于 2012-11-25 10:56
76. Combining enormous physical strength with higherintelligence, the Neanderthals appear a ...

我不觉得对，appear to have equipped,难道是equip在appear之前吗？

Grace828

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