OG 12版分册109题修饰问题请教

shinboy

109. The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.

(A) The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.
(B) To the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote two letters, being the only eyewitness accounts of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
(C) The only eyewitness account is in two letters by the nephew of Pliny the Elder writing to the historian Tacitus an account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
(D) Writing the only eyewitness account, Pliny the Elder's nephew accounted for the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.
(E) In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.

OG选了E。
排除D的原因是suggests eruption of V took place in the letters themselves.
那么E不是会显得the nephew也是in two letters么？

求NN指点~~~

shinboy

谢谢楼上NN~~~~我今天又看到一题 OG105
正确选项也是这样，看来这种用法默认是没有歧义的了。

billsq

我觉得把in two letters作为状语拎出来就是为了防止有great

eruption发生在two letters的嫌疑，和把in two letters放在句尾

是一样的效果；
还有就可能是逻辑上的推断吧，如果是in his office, 那么逻辑主

语肯定是nephew, 但in two letter就只能当作是状语来修饰后面的

句子了。