og186 一个歧义?

ford424

186. Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow

members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to a hotel.

(A)  to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to

(B)  that would have allowed members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of confined to

(C)  under which members of the jury are allowed to go home at the end of each day instead of confining them in

(D)  that would allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than confinement in

(E)   to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than be con­fined to

正确答案是E, 可是我的问题是to allow为什么不会产生既可以修饰a motion, 又可以修饰deny的歧义?

thanks in advance!

三脚猫

a motion 是名词，deny是动词，两个词之间不存在产生修饰岐义的可能性啊

ford424

我的意思是会不会有一下两种理解可能：

1.否定一个motion，这个motion是allow。。。

2.否定一个motion，目的是allow。。。

请教

colacat

Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow....

to allow动词不定式做宾语补足语啊。怎么会产生什么歧义呢？

ford424

动词不定式也可以修饰名词啊!

he's the man to help us.

colacat

这就是宾补啊 OC

wwwhahchn

我觉得这里主要是因为a motion to do sth.是一个idiomatic的用法，所以to do肯定是修饰motion，没有歧义

否则，应该是有歧义的

请NN指点

colacat

旋元佑的书中提到过一个验证SVOC句型非常简便的方法，就是把宾语和补语拿出来，中间加上be动词，看看能不能改成SVC句型

比如Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow.... 就变成 a motion is to allow。。。。。

又比如 he's the man to help us  就变成 the man is to help us.

另外，一般可以把不定式视为名词来处理，所以不定式不可能做宾语的定语

如果要做定语的话，就应该变成 Judge Bonham denied a motion allowing.......

ford424

理解了，感谢感谢！

不知道“旋元佑”的书如何?值得看吗?

wwwhahchn

我同意楼主的理解，to do在很多情况下都可以修饰谓语动词表目的，但因为这里有a motion to do的固定用法，所以没有歧义