OG113. Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang like socks on a clothesline.
(A) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang
(B) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs were hanging
(C) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
(D) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging（D）
(E) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs have hung
Choices A, B, and C use have... saw where have... seen is required. Choices A, B, and E awkwardly separate the relative clause beginning whose arms and legs... from monkeys, the noun it modifies. Choices A and E also confusingly use the present tense hang and the present perfect have hung, respectively; neither verb conveys clearly that, at the time the monkeys were spotted sleeping, their arms and legs were hanging in the manner described. Choice D, the best answer, not only forms a correct and clear sentence by supplying the present perfect verb have... seen, but also solves the problem of the whose... clause by using the appropriately placed adverbial phrase with arms and legs hanging... to modify sleeping.
我认为选项D的with结构有歧义。with是修饰visitors还是monkeys? OG认为是修饰monkeys, 但是如何排除with不是修饰visitors呢？请指教。 -- by 会员 fchn951 (2005/6/22 9:06:00)
不能这么说，“with+名词+分词”结构是做状语的，是对主句的伴随状况、补充说明、具体举例，也可以是表示愿意，不是修饰主句某一成分的。比如下面两句：
London was found to be the least punctual city, with 41 per cent of respondents admitting that they were hardly ever on time, compared with the national average of 28 per cent.
Mobile phone have broken many social taboos, with people answering calls in middle of a conversationor chatting away on the toilet.
这两句话的WITH都不修饰前面主句的任何成分，只对主句起了补充说明的作用。 | 
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