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[airdog]

Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

詳解寫A is best. 從邏輯上，Modern critics are amused by 一件事情。而不是被scholars 所amused。

有大大能再解釋清楚一點嗎

[dibert8]

Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

(A) categorizing...as... 一件事情(狀態)=>'所有格'+'一件事情'
(B) (E) if 後面接子句
(C) categorizing 的主詞是 critics 不合理
(D) (E) 1. 句意到 scholars, 後面修飾 scholars (i.e. 形容詞),句意不完整 (i.e. 欠缺主軸句意) 2. 扭曲句意

[airdog]

感謝回答～