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请教~单复数指代问题~
用 it, its, they, them, their 进行指代的话,若句子中出现了多个可能被指代的名词,则会指代不明。我想问一下,这个可不可以根据单复数进行判断?比如句中出现了多个名词,但是只有一个是单数,则it 不会指代不明?还是即使只有一个单数名词,还是存在指代不明的问题?
可能有点抽象。。。
比如说,这个manhattan里面的句子:
It would hardly be fair for the meatpacking industry to blameregulators for the harm that it has inflicted upon itself in thesub-prime meat sector.
这个是正确的,解释里说it指代 industry。但句中同时也出现了regulators,但是是复数,所以可以判断指的是industry (还是通过别的断的?)
OG12 的101题,有个错误选项是:
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
解释是:The reference for the pronoun it is unclear because many nouns have intervened between the appearance of the logical referent (course of action) and it. 句子中it可指代很多名词,无法明确判断it指的是course of action.
但既然it是单数,句子中的单数名词也只有course of action 和一个 incipient trouble。那如果去掉句中的incipient trouble,这个指代还是不清楚么?就是如果句子变成
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
这样还是存在指代不明的问题么?
好像说的有点麻烦。。。不过指代的问题实在有点不明白!!!请NN解答!! |
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