OG 12 SC-12

rmbaos

Rising inventories, when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.

(A) when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead
(B) when not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, possibly leads
(C) when they were unaccompanied by corresponding sales increases, can lead
(D) if not accompanied by correspondingly increased sales, possibly leads
(E) if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, can lead

og 解释中没有说到 possibly 与 can 是否能够互相替代的问题，丽丽语法中是说不可以，请帮忙解答下，这因为道题能不能possibly而直接将BE两个选项排除？

另外og中解释D选项时，说到：Correspondingly increased sales is awkward and unclear, 这个看不懂，correspondlingly 不是修饰了它该修饰的 increased了吗？

rmbaos

这道题的正确答案是：E。
然后我还有一个不懂的是：主语是 inventories,   然而if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, 即，inventories are not accompanied by increases ?  为什么不是accompanied by increased sales 呢？？

larrylw

inventories are not accompanied by increases in sales中increase是名词，意思是存货没有被sales的增长所伴随，这里中心词是increases。
而accompanied by increased sales意思是存货与增长的sales伴随,中心词是sales，与原句意思不符

vernetta

possibly应该也可以，但是选项里面possibly后面的动词是leads就不对了，从意思上来说possibly表示一种可能性，can表示具有这种能力，最好是用can.  另外的那个同意楼上