OG16 Diagnostic Q39的一点见解

ubchouserent

According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of
speech, but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of
communication, and only later merged with spoken language.
(A) was more likely to begin as
(B) more than likely began as
(C) more than likely beginning from
(D) it was more than likely begun from
(E) it was more likely that it began

看了很多CD和国外的帖子，感觉对这道题的解释都模模糊糊，发表一下我个人的见解，等NN诊断：
1. 这道题的结构不是not...but...，而是简单的连词并列结构： subject verb1, but verb2, and verb3=the earliest writing(subject) was(verb1), but began(verb2), and merged(verb3).
另一个迷惑点是很多人觉得but前用了comma，所以but后是一个主谓都要有的完整clause，但是根据manhattan 6th P102，对于一个含有多于3个items的list，如apples, pears, AND bananas时，第二个及以后item前要加comma，and前也要加comma，那么这里其实也相当于是一个含3个items的并列，只不过第二个item里有一个连词but。
现在的不确定是：一个完整句子里是不是可以连用2个以上的连词（but+and）？

ubchouserent

elusive 发表于 2016-4-18 07:40
又发现一道but and的题
The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing back, broad ...

划线的是哪部分？

ubchouserent

elusive 发表于 2016-4-18 03:20
此外关于but和逗号，
but后面要有完整的的主谓，这是不一定的，因为很多情况下他们被省略了！！
举个例子： ...

也就是说 and/逗号+and 和 but/逗号+but 的用法不尽相同？

ubchouserent

elusive 发表于 2016-4-18 03:11
个人理解：
首先，有了more肯定有than，没有划线的地方没有than，那么划线的地方必定有than。more likely  ...

OG上说 When more is used in the comparative form of an adjective (more difficult) or adverb (more likely), it is followed by than.
但是查了一下大全，也有很多有more+adj/adv，但是不含than的用法。难道这些都不是comparative form? 如：

168. Because the Earth’s crust ismore solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake ofa given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the easternUnited States than it does in the West.

216.        Computers are becoming faster, more powerful, and more reliable, and so too are modems, they are the devices to allow two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines.

629. Seeming to be one of the few corporations diversified enough to survive therecession, many shareholders ignored the drop in third-quarter profits andinvested even more heavily in Emco.