"the"的位置如此重要!

Herbert

<>第154题：  In 1791 Robert CarterⅢ, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Virginia, stunned his family, friends, and neighbours by filing a deed of emancipation, setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered his property.
A)  setting free the more than 500 slaves who were  legally      
     considered                                                               
B)   setting free more than the500 slaves who were legally considered as
D)and set free more than the500 slaves who were legally considered
正确答案是A，在题后的解释中有如下一段话：  In choices B and D the misconstructed phrases set[ting] free more than the 500 slaves …… mistakenly suggest that Carter set free slaves that were not his own. 而导致上述错误的就是the的不同位置，即从more than移到more than后面，这样的移动何以导致mistakenly suggest that Carter set free slaves that were not his own.？那么B，D中的who were legally considered [as]又该作何理解？（B，D的其他错误这里不作讨论）请高人解惑。

Herbert

怎么无人施以援手? 斑竹哩?

tocean0222

1、In my oppion,"the" here is used to specify the number of slaves who belong to this owner.While "the more than 500" means 属于他的500多, "more than the 500" means 超过属于他的500. So it is problem between set and subset and i think the difference is obvious.
2、"sth. be considered sth." is an idiom.

jerry_link

同意楼上的解释

请参考
three of us
the three of us

刚刚看到OG的第176题
As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now
believe that all of information encoded in 50000 to 100000 of different genes
found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell's DNA.
the Ans is the 50000 to 100000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in mere

注意其中的the

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