新PREP的一道题，

theresalwaysme

AE210.(GWD-12-Q31)


Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

A. Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering

B. Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886 and outnumbering

D. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering

E. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

我的问题是，which引导定语从句，which应该修饰离它最近的名词，这样E选项当中的which应该修饰Dickinson这个人啊？但是which逻辑上是应该修饰letters的，这个是怎么回事啊？

haileywang

定语从句修饰人应该用who的，所以这里的which就可以跳跃修饰letters，个人理解……

Wangycbest

刚好我也看到这道题，看到曼哈顿论坛里Ron对这道题的解释，非常有用 ：
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"occasionally, when it is completely unambiguous, "which" can refer
to a whole NOUN PHRASE that immediately precedes the comma."
有的时候，当在完全没有歧义的情况下，which可以指代前面的整个名词词组，
也就是x of y的形式。
“in this case, this noun phrase is "X's letters to Y". (note that
this noun phrase, as a unit, does immediately precede the comma.)”
注意到这道题里，这个名词词组"X's letters to Y是作为一个整体，并且直接
紧跟在逗号的前面，并且which指代这个人在这句话里是完全没有逻辑的，所以
这里的which就可以指代前面整个名词词组。
Here's the basic summary:
if you have "X of Y, which..."
then:
* if Y works as the antecedent of "which", then "which" should stand
for Y.
* if Y doesn't work as the antecedent, but "X of Y" DOES work, then
"which" can stand for "X of Y".
当看到“X of Y, which..”的形式的时候，如果它可以指代前面的Y，那么它
就指代前面的Y；如果Y不能作为先行词，但是X of Y可以，那么它就可以指代X
of Y.

pangpangshin

which 是不能指代D 的，这样说吧，逗号前是一个介宾结构，这时候定语从句只修饰这个介宾的核心词就是letter。OG后面解释几乎都是这样，题目也是这样用的。

rebecw

我的做法：CD没谓语，B呢，were 和 Outnumber 中间没有and 链接，剩下AE，A中的Outnumbering 是对句子还是对词呢，不明确，剩下E，end～