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作者: 狗志 时间: 2015-5-31 09:34
标题: 语法求教

For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year.

Aproviding them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing 分析A选项
Bproviding them with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces 分析B选项
Cprovided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing 分析C选项
Dprovided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces 分析D选项
Eprovided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce  分析

发一个做一遍错一遍的题求教大家，这个题我实在是分不清该是providing milking 还是provided milked贴上Ron大神讲解，求教大家
ugly, ugly, ugly.
ugly.

heh.  it looks like choice (a) is an "indian trap"
seriously, not a joke.
if there is a single biggest issue in the grammar of second-language english speakers who happen to hail from india or pakistan, that issue is the drastic overuse of the "are ...ing" construction.  (native speakers of english will recognize "are producing" at once as awkward.)

another problem with part (a) is the modifier.  although "providing... and milking..." is a grammatically acceptable modifier, it doesn't make any sense in context, since these are not two things that farmers do WHILE or AS A CONSEQUENCE OF keeping the cows cool.  (if you're going to use comma + -ing, then one of these two should hold.)
see #124 (og 12th edition) or #127 (og 11th edition), correct answer, for a sentence in which such a modifier actually does make sense.

the official answer, (e), is tricky indeed.

you have to parse it as follows:
you KEEP THE COWS cool
you KEEP THE COWS provided with...
and you KEEP THE COWS milked regularly

ugly.  very ugly.  but (e) is the least ugly of the bunch, so it wins the proverbial pageant.
i would much prefer "keep them cool, provide them with..., and milk them...", but that isn't there, of course.

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note that you also can't say "THE holstein cows", unless you're referencing a particular, specific, known group of holstein cows (something that you clearly aren't doing).  since you're talking about holstein cows in general, you don't use the article "the".
this is another thing well known, totally subconsciously, to native speakers of english; it's hard-won wisdom for non-native speakers.

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