OG74悬垂修饰语问题

昭子木

74. Despite its covering the entire planet. Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.

(A) Despite its covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is

(B) Despite the fact that it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but is

(C) Despite covering the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but rather

(D) Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather

(E) Although covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, but

Idiom; Parallelism; Logical predication

A dangling modifier is an error in sentence structure whereby a participleis associated with a word other than the one intended or with no particular word at all. In this sentence, Earth is the closestword to the participial clause, and so the latter means that Earth is covering the entire planet (itself), whichis a contradiction.

后面是og上对这一题的解释，麻烦有没有哪位牛牛帮我解释一下为什么说这个悬垂修饰语是一个错误的结构？我知道悬垂修饰一般不能放在两个句子中间，因为不知道修饰的是哪个句子，那这个情况呢？

287151319

这里的dangling modifier指的是Despite its covering the entire planet， 因为不能修饰主语Earth ，所以无修饰对象，就成了dangling modifier。

昭子木

287151319 发表于 2015-1-5 00:29
这里的dangling modifier指的是Despite its covering the entire planet， 因为不能修饰主语Earth ，所以无 ...

好的，谢谢~是我把这句话想的复杂了~