hope 不能建立在projection上吗？我有点迷惑，求解。

hope 的事情到底是什么 Lies in increase 才是正解

(D) Much of the hope for continued improvement of the economy lies in consumer spending that is projected to increase this year.

This is INCORRECT because while it's close to the intended meaning, it's still not quite there. This sentence is saying that people are putting their hope in ONLY the part of consumer spending that increases - not ALL consumer spending increasing. Since that's not really what we're going for, let's rule this out.

(E) Much of the hope for continued improvement of the economy lies in increase in consumer spending that is projected for this year.

This is CORRECT! It's clear that people are putting their hope in an all-around increase in consumer spending, which we know from the rest of the sentence is likely to happen this year.

C项 projected的修饰对象是consumer还是increase存在歧义

https://gmatclub.com/forum/much-of-the-hope-for-continued-improvement-of-the-economy-lies-in-the-305960.html

一个东西的动态变化取决于另一个东西的动态变化
所以improvement对应increase

关键是increase, 不是其他的

形容词+名词+名词，不是名词不能修饰名词，而是这个形容词修饰的不知道是哪个名词

1.Rhetorical construction，C选项Increase前面有太多adj,有点头重脚轻，不够简洁，没有E选项好
2.lies in的宾语应该是increase而不是consumer spending。D选项的表达导致产生一种含义，还有projected not to increase的spending，句意错误。

C：projected 可以修饰 consumer spending，consumer spending不能用在increase前面
ABD：核心词应该是increase，不是projection，也不是consumer spending

Spending是名词指支出，无法直接放在另一个名词前

回复说得对，GMAT里关注和理解句子的核心词是关键，这个题显然是要强调increase而不是projection

核心词：increase
C：projected 修饰对象会引起误会 consumer vs increase

核心词

C：projected 可以修饰 consumer spending，consumer spending不能用在increase前面
ABD：核心词应该是increase，不是projection，也不是consumer spending

C:projected作为形容词有可能修饰consumer spending

C 中consumer spending 不能做increase定语，因为无法描述increase的属性

希望 依赖于 顾客消费的增长 而不是顾客消费 核心词问题

重点是increase而不是projection 而且1和2的increasing都很奇怪

consumer spending increase 是难以被project的，但是消费开支可以排除34，而且improvement lies in 对应的是increase，换成depend on 情况就不一样了，这里排除12 ，5projected for 时间，针对今年的，increase in sth，表达完美