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tim
 Post subject: Re: One automobile manufacturer
 Post Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:05 pm 
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what's to explain? you've totally figured out where the comprehension error is - you're just not interpreting the word "would" correctly..

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ramdev
 Post subject: Re: One automobile manufacturer
 Post Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:48 pm 
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Hi,
I eliminated C and D because I thought "an increase..." is an apposite, and an apposite needs to touch the noun that it modifies. Here "an increase.." is touching "five years". Please could you explain what I am missing?
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RonPurewal
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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:41 am 
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ramdev wrote:
Hi,
I eliminated C and D because I thought "an increase..." is an apposite, and an apposite needs to touch the noun that it modifies. Here "an increase.." is touching "five years". Please could you explain what I am missing?


no -- this sort of modifier (which you've spelled wrong, by the way -- it's "appositive", not "apposite") is not so severely restricted in its use.
this type of modifier can modify the preceding noun, but it can also modify the entire preceding clause.

examples (both correct):
the plover gets its food by cleaning the mouth of the alligator, a reptile that could devour it at any time.
--> in this example, the appositive “a reptile” just modifies the alligator.
the plover gets its food by cleaning the mouth of the alligator, a relationship that benefits both animals.
--> in this example, the appositive “a relationship” is modifying the entire preceding clause, which describes the relationship between the plover and the alligator.

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for examples in the official guide (12th edition), check out #83 and #103; these are one of each kind.

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in this sentence given here, the appositive modifier is describing the entire preceding description of the planned increase, in essentially the same way as the second example above.
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varun_783
 Post subject: Re: One automobile manufacturer
 Post Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:14 am 
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Hi Ron,

RonPurewal wrote:
examples (both correct):
the plover gets its food by cleaning the mouth of the alligator, a reptile that could devour it at any time.
--> in this example, the appositive “a reptile” just modifies the alligator.
the plover gets its food by cleaning the mouth of the alligator, a relationship that benefits both animals.
--> in this example, the appositive “a relationship” is modifying the entire preceding clause, which describes the relationship between the plover and the alligator.


Following from one of your other posts, I am assuming that "a reptile" is a concrete noun which can modify the preceding noun and "a relationship" is an abstract noun which can modify the idea of the preceding clause?

Can you please confirm?

Thanks

Sunil
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RonPurewal
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 Post Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:23 am 
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varun_783 wrote:
Following from one of your other posts, I am assuming that "a reptile" is a concrete noun which can modify the preceding noun and "a relationship" is an abstract noun which can modify the idea of the preceding clause?

Can you please confirm?

Thanks

Sunil


yes.
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gmatango
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 Post Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:17 pm 
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Hi Ron,

Your mentioned in your first comment ::

The trouble with A and B, therefore, is that neither possibility makes any sense. "amounting to..." doesn't modify "has announced" and it also doesn't modify the entire clause.

Firstly, I am still not able to get how "amounting to ...." (in choice A) doesn't modify the entire clause.

Secondly, you also mentioned "amounting to...." doesn't modify "has announced". Reading your comments on the forum, my understanding is the "-ing modifier" (preceded with comma) either modifies the entire clause or the subject of the clause. Here the subject is "one manufacturer", so why did you mention 'has reached' instead.
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: One automobile manufacturer
 Post Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:07 pm 
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akshayanand05 wrote:
Firstly, I am still not able to get how "amounting to ...." (in choice A) doesn't modify the entire clause.


the entire clause discusses an action on the part of the manufacturers. the manufacturers certainly do not amount to a numerical quantity in terms of miles per gallon, so this modifier doesn't modify the clause.

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Secondly, you also mentioned "amounting to...." doesn't modify "has announced". Reading your comments on the forum, my understanding is the "-ing modifier" (preceded with comma) either modifies the entire clause or the subject of the clause. Here the subject is "one manufacturer", so why did you mention 'has reached' instead.


it's not either/or -- it's both.

when you have one of these modifiers, the modifier should modify the action of the preceding clause AND should be pertinent in some way to the subject of that clause. this one doesn't do either.
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