很容易的英文文法問題

Question

The Health Department is looking into whether advertisements for the necklaces, costing about HK$4,000 each, are misleading and break the law.

why this sentences is not BREAKING the law??

Answer 1

最愛解答

就如上面位人兄yoghurtfruit所講

misleading係adjective(形容詞)

(原字係mislead, 動詞. 此處加ing作形容詞使用)

因為之前有whether呢個conjunction(連接詞)

所以之後既clause(句子)要有動詞(所以加are晌misleading前, 唔可以就咁用連接詞)

又因為有and做conjunction

之後又要用動詞

所以有break呢個動詞

如果變成breaking就會變成gerund(動名詞)或adjective或adverb(副詞, 但加ing變副詞用法不多), so唔可以用breaking

睇返前面個subject係advertisements, 複數主格

所以用break唔用breaks

資料來源： 會考eng syl b grammar卷拎b, 政府綜合招聘試英文拎level2(level2為最高)的我~

Answer 2

If you break down the sentence, you may see that it consists of two meanings:

The Health Department is looking into whether advertisements for necklaces, costing about $4,000 each, are misleading.

The Health Department is looking into whether advertisements for necklaces, costing about $4,000 each, break the law.

So the break here is a verb, while misleading is an adjective.

Hope this helps!