We found an addendum attached to her application from former Secretary of Education Javid formally requesting that her application be given special consideration.
1) 这个句子中requesting如果是在修饰addendum,但它离addendum那么远,中间隔着一大堆成分,此时语法上允许它修饰addendum吗?
2) 这个句子中requesting如果是在修饰 former Secretary of Education Javid,那按照语法规则,requesting前面是否该有逗号?并且分词是否不加逗号也可以做非限制性定语?
3) requesting有没有可能是动名词?
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formally requesting that her application be given special consideration 为现在分词短语作限制性定语修饰an addendum attached to her application from former Secretary of Education Javid 这个名词词组,该名词词组的中心词为addendum。把这个结构用句子表达出来,requesting的逻辑主语就很清楚了:
An addendum attached to her application from former Secretary of Education Javid formally requests that her application be given special consideration.
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首先,修饰语和远近没关系,语法上是允许的。这里作者用了formally 副词,一般来说施动者是人,所以修饰前教育部长Javid。 虽然我们可以说,The letter is a formal request. 用形容词可以指物或人。如果问题句没有formally,指代关系就容易产生歧义了,尽管不影响理解,因为部长的附信要求=部长要求。
requesting 是分词,前面有无逗号都可以。动名词一般不用作后置定语。
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