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27. Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen j and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

(A) Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

(B) Published in Harlem, two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, were the owner and editor of the Messenger.

(C) Published in Harlem, the Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists, A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and Chandler Owen.

(D) The Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and published in Harlem.

(E) The owner and editor being two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, the Messenger was published in Harlem.

In D, the phrase and published in Harlem is too remote from the Messenger to modify it effectively.

请nn指教，怎样判断何时句中的某一成分离要修饰的词太远？

moderation

How far is too far? Well, I am afraid this can not be quantified.

Usually you want the modifier to follow the element that it modifies

immediately in order to avoid any ambiguity. At least that's how ETS

wants it.

ghfgss231

这里ets只是吹毛求疵，D可以说毫无问题，只是从理解比较上来说，C比D更容易明白清楚。当然，语言是为了让说的人和听或看的人清楚所说的意思，所以从这方面来说C是best，而且也更effectiveness，ets在要求correctiveness上的更进一步的要求。

steveyangxt

是啊 但是句子的主干成分也变了，这也可以算作一种错误吧。当然，我们不是在纵容ets,我们是要考g[em02]