Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.
(A) ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only
(B) rank as the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(C) has the rank of the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(D) are the nation's third leading causes of death, surpassed only
(E) have been ranked as the nation's third leading causes of death, only surpassed
选a
V-ed 一般修饰最近的名词 这里surpassed有什么错误码。
有少数个例,
1比如 noun1 + of + noun2+ ved;
此处ved修饰整个noun1 + of + noun2。因为of 词组是关键修饰语,无法同noun1分开来,所以看做一个整体。
2 比如修饰语过长(比如定语从句),在不产生歧义情况下可以把修饰语后置。
the person is good who bala bala.
但是 the person is a good man who bala bala ,这句如果who引导定语从句修饰the person 就不适合后置,因为其优先修饰就近的名词 man。
二、当分词做动词修饰语时就不受紧贴原则约束了,比较灵活。
在lz的例句中可以看做是这种情况,尤其当用逗号和主句隔开的时候( more than 43% of californians under the age of 18 are Hispanic, compared with about 35% a decade ago. )分词一般看做是对整个句子进行修饰。