mahattan 5th chapter six 习题疑问

luckyhaohuan

mahattan chapter six 里的一个习题

指出画线的修饰词修饰对象，并判断修饰是否正确。
People that are well-informed know that Bordeaux is a French region whose most
famous export is the wine which bears its name.

此句修改后的正确的答案是
Well-informed people know that Bordeaux is a French region whose most famous
export is the wine that bears its name.

第一处的修改我明白，第二处把which改成that有些疑问
mahattan的解释：
Which bears its name: INCORRECT. The context of this sentence calls for an essential clause to
modify the wine, since the point of the clause is to identify the wine. If the sentence ended
with the wine, it would be incomplete. The clause should therefore begin with that rather than
which.

如果按essential和non-essential modifier来判断的话，

Use WHICH (and commas) if the modifier is non-essential.

Use THAT (and no commas) if the modifier is essential.
上面红色的句子意思是说：当逗号和which一起出现的时候是non-essential. 例如：

This mansion, WHICH HAS BEEN RECENTLY PAINTED RED, is owned by the tees.
还是只要which出现修饰名词，他就是non-essential modifier.

有点小疑问。。。麻烦大家了。。

This mansion, WHICH HAS BEEN RECENTLY PAINTED RED, is owned by the tees.
还是只要which出现修饰名词，他就是non-essential modifier.

有点小疑问。。。麻烦大家了。。

chaomat1988

對的，用that的話，表示從句的內容是句子重要的成份，沒有它句子的意思是不完整的；而which的作用只是描述性的，沒有了which，句子的意思仍然effective and complete。
manhattan沒有說過優先使用，這是我從一些官題裏面總結出來的規律。我覺得GMAC不會考得那麼細，如果有這個問題的選項肯定也有其他更加明顯的問題。當然，知道這個應該有助於對句子meaning的理解吧

weidehou

我原来也没看懂曼哈顿解释里的“ If the sentence ended
with the wine, it would be incomplete. ”什么意思。看了2楼的解释有点理解了，就是说non-essential的部分是可去的， 如果去掉了这个句子没有突出解释酒所以就是不完整的了。这样理解对吧？
另外请问2楼说的“优先使用”曼哈顿里好像也没说哦。。。考试的时候会考到这种情况么？

像这个题目的改错我好像觉得最后这个which貌似不改也不很错。。。
谢谢。

luckyhaohuan

嗯 明白了  谢谢！

chaomat1988

不是很懂lz要問什麽，直接說manhattan的意思。
對於修飾內容是essential的定從，優先使用that+no comma；修飾內容為non-essential的定從，優先使用which+comma。
Well-informed people know that Bordeaux is a French region whose most famous export is the wine that bears its name.
which換成that的原因：根據meaning，如果用which的話，bear its name就變成non-essential modifier，意思是就算沒有bear its name，作者的意思都會完全的表達出來，變成是：B是法國的一個地區，那裡最出名的就是酒。但是，酒有很多種啊，是什麽酒啊，白酒？紅酒？茅臺！？
這樣理解的話，說明bear its name不能作為non-essential modifier了，只能是essential modifier，所以要用that+no comma。
什麼樣的酒？就是上面有B地標籤的酒啊！這樣意思就清晰很多啦。

hope it helps

krusher

我觉得主要是看modifier本身相对于被修饰语是essential还是non-essential。。。捂脸