标题: 关于逗号+动词ing的用法 [打印本页] 作者: Yizhiii 时间: 2017-1-11 11:52 标题: 关于逗号+动词ing的用法 遇到了很多这种类型的题目很头疼。
Q1. 正确 A mutual fund having billions of dollars in assets will typically invest that money in hundreds of companies, rarely holding more than one percent of the shares of any particular corporation. 这里的holding OG明确表示就是指 a mutual fund
Q2. 错误 The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival's month 这里 OG就明确表示是错的，因为proclaiming指代不明
Q3. Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acquire language.
(A) Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are
(B) Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood over the past twenty years, and are
(C) Neuroscientists amassing a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood over the past twenty years, and are
(D) Neuroscientists have amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood,
(E) Neuroscientists have amassed, over the past twenty years, a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood
Q3的正确答案是A，那为什么这里D错了？ drawing conclusion为什么又不能形容Neuroscientist？？？
Ron有个解释，逗号+动词ing里面，动词ing能够修饰主句的主语要满足两个要求:1. immediate consequence 2. simultaneous。 （详见https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/neuroscientists-having-amassed-a-wealth-of-knowledge-t11470.html）