OG sc#1， ing修饰求解

cician

                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                
•   The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia,were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator CaptainJames Cook, by whom they were named supposedly because its sheer wet rocks glistened like glass.
    
  
  
    (A)  by whom they were named supposedlybecause its
  
     (B)  by whom they were named supposedly and their
  
       (C)  naming them supposedly since their
  
       (D )who so named them supposedly because their
  
        (E)  who so named it since supposedly their
  • 这道题选D，请问C错在哪里？在这种情况下naming 不能修饰captain james cook，只能修饰glass house么？OG这么说的。As the object of a preposition and not thesubject of the clause, James Cook does notwork as the noun that the verbal phrasebeginning with naming can describe; thepreposition since loses the important causallogic of the sentence. 也就是说这个ing只能修饰前边句子的主语？
  • 先谢谢解答
    
                                                                   
    
  
                                                  

                                       
                                
                        
               

soulwangh

Yes, your interpretation of OG is correct.
We call this pattern " comma+Ving".
When the pattern appears at the end of a sentence, it behaves like an adverbial modifier, modifying the subject and verb in the preceding clause.(See, I use the pattern for analogy)

This pattern is a very important and basic in SC. A lot of questions involve it.
Therefore, I recommend you google "Ving 用法小结" in this forum.

cician

soulwangh 发表于 2013-11-18 18:53
Yes, your interpretation of OG is correct.
We call this pattern " comma+Ving".
When the pattern appe ...

谢谢，学习过了，确定一下，是不是 comma＋ ing结构逻辑主语只能是前边句子的主语？

soulwangh

cician 发表于 2013-11-18 19:50
谢谢，学习过了，确定一下，是不是 comma＋ ing结构逻辑主语只能是前边句子的主语？ ...

sometimes, the logical subject is the whole preceding clause.

The crime rate of the district decreases dramatically, making the district safest place in the city.

In this sentence, you cannot say the crime rate makes the district safest place in the city.

kiwifoodtown

cician 发表于 2013-11-18 19:50
谢谢，学习过了，确定一下，是不是 comma＋ ing结构逻辑主语只能是前边句子的主语？ ...

理论上，这种现在分词作状语是修饰前面整个句子。

cician

soulwangh 发表于 2013-11-18 22:20
sometimes, the logical subject is the whole preceding clause.

The crime rate of the district decr ...

谢谢，我只是想确定是不是一定不能修饰宾语？

cician

kiwifoodtown 发表于 2013-11-19 09:40
理论上，这种现在分词作状语是修饰前面整个句子。

嗯，请问是不是一定不能修饰宾语？

soulwangh

cician 发表于 2013-11-19 12:14
谢谢，我只是想确定是不是一定不能修饰宾语？

I think I got your point.

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I bought an ice-cream, making me happy.
2/
I bought an ice-cream making me happy.

In the first sentence, the present participle modifies the whole preceding clause, including the object.
Because without ice-cream, why should you happy?

If you want to qualify the scope of the modifier, use the second one. Without the comma, the modifier can only modify the ice-cream.

Piece of advice, when you have a problem, provide the SC questions. The questions serve as a context. It can make others know your problem quickly and clearly. Without the context, the only thing we could do is to mess up our mind.

Hope it helps.

cician

soulwangh 发表于 2013-11-19 13:13
I think I got your point.

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谢谢

cician

soulwangh 发表于 2013-11-19 13:13
I think I got your point.

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再请问一下，看到pp笔记里边有一段：
prep1-97:Industrialization and modern methods of insect control have improved the standard of
living around the globe while at the same time they have introduced some 100,000 dangerous chemical pollutants, having gone virtually unregulated since they were developed more than 50 years ago.这里面 having 可能修饰 pollutants,也可能修饰 they have introduced some 100,000 dangerous chemical pollutants 整个分句,所以 having 产生了修饰歧义
就不懂了，因为感觉这个having只能修饰they,不能修饰pollutants呀。