后置定语之前是不是需要介词

The office has received several phone calls making inquireies about employment.

请教老师,phone calls 后面需要介词of吗？有没of都是正确的？以下三种都是正确的吗？

The office has received several phone calls making inquireies about employment.

The office has received several phone calls of making inquireies about employment.

The office has received several phone calls to make inquireies about employment.

谢谢老师。

回答这个问题之前，大家先明确几个原则。

第一，动名词只能作前置定语，不能作后置定语。名词后的v-ing形式作定语，肯定是目前分词。目前分词作任何成分，均与谓语动作具备时间上的同时性。

第二，不定式作定语永远是后置定语，不定式的动作在谓语动作时间还没发生，即不定式的动作时间后于谓语动作时间。（被修饰名词为序数词+名词时，to do可能是to have done的替代式）

第三，及物动词+宾语+doing，这个doing可能是目前分词作后置定语，可能是目前分词作状语，也会是目前分词或动名词作宾补。需要依据动词汇义及上下文语境做出判断。

第四，动词inquire的主语一般是人，词典例句中没事物作主语的例句。

目前大家剖析网友的三个句子。

1 The office has received several phone calls making inquireies about employment.

2 The office has received several phone calls of making inquireies about employment.

3 The office has received several phone calls to make inquireies about employment.

这三个句子可能是自己写的，句子的意思显然是：办公室接到了好几个询问招聘事宜的电话。依据语言逻辑，calls后面应该是定语。employment是用词错误，应改为the recruitment。

第三句明显是不对的。由于不定式的动作不是主语发出的，排除目的状语。不定式to do作定语是谓语动作之后的，即received的时候，询问的动作还没发生。这不符合逻辑。receive不能后接复合宾语。不定式更不是宾补。

第二句of making inquiries, 介词of与calls之间没搭配关系，用of没道理，由于动名词短语与calls之间不是所属关系，更不是同位关系。故第二句也是不对的。

第一句making inquirieis为目前分词。其逻辑主语不是句子主语，故排除状语。因此，为目前分词作定语。目前分词作定语与被修饰名词之间需要是逻辑主谓关系，而calls显然不可以发出make inquiries这个动作的。所以making inquiring是错误形式。但在语言的实质应用中，特别是在口语中，说话人在心目中把电话（call）、信件（letter）拟人化，感觉听着电话或读着信件就好似call或者letter在说话或询问。所以实质应用中，有用目前分词inquiring作定语修饰call或letter的，特别是在美国英语中。所以，假如把making inquiring改为inquring, 则这个句子是可以同意的。即：

The office has received several phone calls inquiring about the recruitment.

关于这种使用方法，COCA语料库有如下例句：

Desperate as they may be, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays initially wouldnt return hiscallinquiringabout a possible team purchase.

It was a January evening, when I received acallinquiringif I would be interested in joining a group of photographers for a trip to the Russian North.

I matched the faded letters with the photograph Yusef had sent along with aletterinquiringif I wanted to purchase this little scrap of paper.

But when Proulx received aletterinquiringabout the film rights from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry,...

Sheikh said that Davis, who could not be reached for comment, has not responded to an April 7letterinquiring whether he had won an insurance settlement.