NN请教一个问题

qsjvicky

og13 65.Digging in sediments in northern China, evidence has been gathered by scientistssuggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than they had previously thought.

(A) evidence has been gathered byscientists suggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than theyhad

(B) evidence gathered by scientistssuggests a much earlier emergence of complex life-forms than had been

(C) scientists have gathered evidencesuggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than

(D) scientists have gathered evidencethat suggests a much earlier emergence of complex life-forms than that whichwas

(E) scientists have gathered evidencewhich suggests a much earlier emergence of complex life-forms than that

我想，如果A选项是正确的，我能不能把原句子写成: Digged in sediments in northern China, evidence has been gathered by scientists suggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than they had previously thought.

happypete

个人觉得不可以，如果你要改成这样的话，你那个suggesting是修饰谁？按照原句的意思，应该是修饰evidence，而你改成这个样子，suggesting也可能修饰scientists，这样的话，是否会产生歧义或者ambigious

qsjvicky

happypete 发表于 2013-4-4 11:14
个人觉得不可以，如果你要改成这样的话，你那个suggesting是修饰谁？按照原句的意思，应该是修饰evidence， ...

got it!thx!