Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in lower-end insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.
imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
imposing stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending
that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending
now there are 3 activities
a)impose stricter limits on medical services
b) require doctors to see more patients, and
c)spend less time with each.
in these a and b are independent and c is dependent on b....
C makes all a ,b ,c independent...... E makes b and c dependent on a..
only D makes a and b independent and c dependent on b.. therefore D is the ans...
用imposing不如that impose
Is "imposing" modifying "lower-end insurance plans" or is it modifying "union members" or "non union members"????
The construction "preposition + noun + present participle" creates this confusion.
spend主语是doctor
in choice d, you could legitimately make a case that 'spending' could modify the entire huge clause about what insurance plans do, and is therefore ambiguous. however, that's the OA, so you've learned that this problem is ok in the eyes of the gmat people. if there's a rule that can be articulated here, it's probably something along the lines of 'participial modifier applies to nearest action'.
D选项中spending的逻辑主语是doctors,因为它伴随的谓语动词是see。
所以意思是伴随状语的主语是离他最近的谓语的主语而不是离它最近的句子的主语?
不一定,要看语义。
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理解成了service require doctors… 但是service不可能spend time… 注意语义 动作发出者
考语义
E项,requiring&spending 平行,表明两者的逻辑主语都是insurance plans;与语义不符
这道题是嵌入式关系分句结构吗?spending引导伴随状语就近修饰see?
1. 不是嵌入式关系分句啊,先行词做主语嘛。
2. 是的。
伴随状语不是应该修饰主句的谓语吗?是“就近”原则更强?
打完知道怎么回事了,但是删不掉啦。。。。
是怎么回事,我还不太懂
理论上是可以修饰主语的动作的,但这道题很明显考的是平行内容的区分,spending不在平行中,而作状语修饰挨着的平行结构的动词。我们用排除法选择的E。同样关于状语,我们看选项A和B,imposing可以作plan的后置定语,也可以作为主句动词union members are less likely than 的伴随状语,引起的歧义是非常明显的。不知道我的回答是否于你在判断状语修饰这个问题上有所帮助。
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