※ 引述《lunkuo (藍藍)》之銘言：
: 書名：網路練習題
: 題目：
: 1. Today, 79 percent of the world's children, ________ six to eleven , are
: enrolled in elementary school.
: (1) aged
: (2) aging
: (3) to age
: (4) ages
: 疑問：為甚麼是1而不是2，因為who age =aging
:
以 "aged" 的用法來說，屬於形容詞 [1] [2] 。一般用法上，習慣放在人後面，可用逗點
隔開 [3] [4]，也可不用逗點隔開 [5] [6]。"ages" 也有相同的用法: 前可加逗點
[7] [8] [9]，也可不加逗點 [10] [11] [12]。所以你這個題目會有兩個答案可選擇。
而你所說的 "who age" 不是用在表達年紀的情境。
[1] aged: not used before a noun : having reached a specified age
woman aged 40 [=a woman who is 40 years old]
(Merriam-Webster Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
[2] Only 10.6 per cent of American Twitter users are aged 18 to 24, Sarah
Radwanick from comScore discovered. (Telegraph, 13 Apr 2009)
[3] The men,aged 30 and 33 and from the Manchester area, were arrested in
Cullompton, Devon, at around 10am on Monday. (Independent, 15 June 2011)
[4] Berlin has got nothing like it to offer," said J?rgen Finke,aged 20,
a student at Potsdam University. (Guardian, 27 July 2010)
[5] Men aged 50 and older who have no close friends or relatives are three times
as likely to die after suffering high levels of emotional stress as those
whose lives are less lonely, according to a study conducted in Sweden.
(Time, December 20,1993)
[6] Supporters of the bill point out that teen-agers and young adults aged 16 to
24 are involved in a shocking 42% of all fatal alcohol-related accidents,
though they constitute only 20% of licensed drivers and account for less
than 20% of total vehicle miles driven. (Time, August 2, 1984)
[7] Those girls were shown to have the highest body esteem. Murnen and her
colleagues reviewed 21 studies that looked at the media's effect on more
than 6,000 girls,ages 10 and older, and found those who were exposed to the most fashion magazines were more likely to suffer from poor body images. (USA Today, September 26, 2006)
[8] The Dear Santa lists made by their two sons,ages 3 and 8, are limited to
three gifts each. (Time, December 13, 2004)
[9] But NIH-funded research in the Archives of Ophthalmology gives hope to older
kids,ages 7 and up, suggesting that patches, eyedrops and near-vision
activities can improve their vision too. (Time, April 25, 2005)
[10] The jobless rate for Americans ages 16 to 19 has jumped to 26 percent.
(Businessweek, August 10, 2010)
[11] Mark Levitan, the report's author, found that just 51.8 percent of black
men ages 16 to 64 held jobs in New York City in 2003.
(NY Times, February 28, 2004)
[12] The study, based on a survey of more than 1,200 Latinos ages 16 to 25 and
an analysis of census data, presents a portrait of the assimilation of a
rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, one that will have a
significant effect on the nation's politics and economics in coming years.
(LA Times, December 11, 2009)
希望以上對你有幫助 :)
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