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楼主
发表于 2004-7-16 11:44:00 | 只看该作者

关于run-on句子求教



There are many explanations on run-on sentence in OG, I hope to get more detailed knowledge about it. Thanks a million.


10. However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.


(A)  However much United States voters may agree that


(B)  Despite the agreement among United States voters to the fact


(C)  Although United States voters agree


(D)  Even though United States voters may agree


(E)   There is agreement among United States voters that


A is the best choice. Choices B, C, and D incorrectly omit that after agree; that is needed to create the parallel construction agree that there is waste . . . and that the government... spends. Choice E, though it retains that, is grammatically incorrect: because E starts with an independent rather than a subordinate clause and separates its two independent clauses with a comma, it creates a run-on sentence with no logical connection established between the halves. In B, the agree­ment ... to the fact is unidiomatic, and B, C, and E alter the sense of the original sentence by saying that voters agree rather than that they may agree.



71. The original building and loan associations were


organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.


(A)  subscriptions, then taking turns drawing


(B)  subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing


(C)  subscriptions and then took turns drawing


(D)  subscriptions and then took turns, they drew


(E)   subscriptions and then drew, taking turns


The sentence speaks of a sequence of actions in the past:


shareholders made their monthly payments and subsequently took turns drawing on the funds. Choice C, the best answer, uses parallel past-tense verb forms to express this sequence. Choices A and B violate parallelism by using taking where took is required. The wording in D results in a run-on sentence and does not specify what the members took turns doing. Similarly, E does not specify what the members drew, and taking turns produces nonsense when combined with the rest of the sentence.



263. In A.D. 391. resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the lliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.


(A)  resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,


(B)   the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and


(C)  because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,


(D)  as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,


(E)   Alexandria's largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was


D, the best choice, uses the idiomatic as a result o/and conveys information unambiguously. In A, the phrase that begins resulting from cannot properly modify later genera­tions. The word order of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria generates ambiguity: one possible read­ing is that the ancient world was located at Alexandria. Choice B is incorrect. Although an "-ing" verb such as destroying can sometimes act as a noun, in this case the usage is strained. Again, at Alexandria is ambiguous (as in choice A). Choice B also uses resulted ungrammatically and produces a run-on sentence (In A.D. 391, the destroying... resulted and later generations lost). In C, the phrase because of the result of is unidiomatic as well as redundant. The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria's was destroyed. Furthermore, the result was should instead be the result was that.


沙发
发表于 2004-7-16 12:12:00 | 只看该作者

a run-on sentence is that two independent sentences uses comma to connect. there are two ways to correct such problem. first, you can use";" or "." tp seperate the two sentences; the other way is to use the conjunction or adverb to relate the sentences, according to the logic meaning. before coordination conjuctions such as " and, or, yet,nor, for" comma is needed

10. E.There is agreement among United States voters thatthere is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

71.DThe original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then took turns, they drew

263.Bthe destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and later generations lost all but the lliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides: before and need comma.

板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2004-7-18 12:54:00 | 只看该作者

Thanks a lot for your tips, please look OG35:


135. Intar, the oldest Hispanic theater company in New York, has moved away from the Spanish classics and now it draws on the works both of contemporary Hispanic authors who live abroad and of those in the United States.


(A)  now it draws on the works both of contemporary Hispanic authors who live abroad and of


(B)   now draws on the works of contemporary Hispanic authors, both those who live abroad and those who live


(C)  it draws on the works of contemporary Hispanic authors now, both those living abroad and who live


(D)  draws now on the works both of contemporary Hispanic authors living abroad and who are


(E)   draws on the works now of both contemporary Hispanic authors living abroad and those



In choices A and C, it intrudes between the halves of the compound verb has moved... and [now] draws to introduce a new grammatical subject, thereby creating a run-on sentence:


the inclusion of it requires a comma after classics to set off the new independent clause. The placement of now is awkward in C, and the construction living abroad... and who is not parallel in C and D. Misplacement of words creates ambiguity in E: for example, the positioning of both immediately before the phrase describing the authors suggests that there are only two contemporary Hispanic authors living abroad. The logical word placement and parallel phrasing of B, the best choice, resolve such confusions.



I think even choices A and C are run-on sentences, not conforming to gmat standards, but they still could be understood as normal sentence, right? Then please take a look at OG152:


152. When the technique known as gene-splicing was invented in the early 1970's, it was feared that scien­tists might inadvertently create an "Andromeda strain," a microbe never before seen on Earth that might escape from the laboratory and it would kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it.


(A)  it would kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it


(B)   it might kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against it


(C)  kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it


(D)  kill vast numbers of humans who have no natu­ral defenses against them


(E)   kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against them


This sentence requires parallel verb forms within the relative clause that might escape... and kill. C, the best choice, uses parallel verb forms that are followed appropriately by the conditional would have in the who clause that modifies humans. Choices A and B each violate parallel construction by intro­ducing a new independent clause, it would kill... and it might kill... Though choices D and E begin by observing parallel­ism, the use of them at the end of each creates a problem of pronoun reference: them cannot refer to the singular microbe. In addition, choices B, D, and E lack would and thus do not express the conditional.



Is answer C a run-on sentence? “a microbe never before seen on Earth that might escape from the laboratory and kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it”


Should there be a comma or semicolon after laboratory to set off the sentence?

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