The problem of the sentence is parallelism of neither X nor Y...
Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary. (you can finish the sentence there) ....
-- by 会员 tomatoshirt (2012/8/25 11:24:22)
Desplte its covering the entrre planet. Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.
(A) Despite its covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is
(B) Despite the fact that it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but is
(C) Despite covering the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but rather
(D) Although it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather
(E) Although covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, but 答案是D
为什么although可以和but rather 放在一个句子里啊？
-- by 会员 linhan50 (2012/8/25 11:04:57)