Since Solano Marketing was established,the human resoureces department has counted on newspapers to advertise job opentings in the company.However,we have observed that ____ to printed advertisements have dropped since the onset of online employment agencies.
A. responses B.responded C.responding D.respondent
答案是 A,为什么是 A,为什么不是 C,respond to 回应...,所以不是应该选C吗?
因为是语法初学者,麻烦能不能详细回答下呢?
付老师:
要填的空是宾语从句的主语中心词,从句谓语动词用的是 have dropped,依照主谓一致的原则,主语中心词应该选择名词复数 responses。另外,responding 是动名词,是“回复、回应”这个抽象动作,不能讨论它是“上升”或是“下降”,而 response 是名词,可以用数词来修饰,也可以讨论它的数量是“上升”的还是“下降”的。