Global English 14 ー形容詞句が何を修飾しているかを明確にー

  • [bad] Click Overview to view short descriptions of the products that include information links.
    • "that include information links"が、descriptionsとproductsのどちらを修飾しているのかが分からない。
  • [good] Click Overview to view short descriptions of the products. Each description includes links to more-derailed information.

  • [bad] The audience consisted of employees, quality partners, and customers who are participating in beta testing.
    • "who are ..."の句が、employees, partners, customersのどれを修飾しているのかが分からない。
  • [good] The audience consisted of three groups of people who are participating in beta testing: employees, quality partners, and customers.

  • [good] The Edit window accepts lines in a DATALINES statement that are longer than 256 characters.
    • "that are..."の句は、statementではなくてlinesを修飾しているのが明らかである。なぜなら、"that are ..."のbe動詞が、複数形の主語を想定しているから。

  • [bad] If you change chapters of a document that someone else has checked out, you won't be able to save your changes.
  • [good] If you change chapters that someone else has checked out, you won't be able to save your changes.
  • [good] If someone checked out a document, then you cannot save any changes that you make to any chapters of that document.