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Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved from the previous year, only look less appetizing than their round and red supermarket cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are more flavorful.

1. cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are
2. cousins, often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
3. cousins, often green and striped, or they have plenty of bumps and bruises, although they are
4. cousins; they are often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
5. cousins; they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are

 i choose D,but OA is E

i think "they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are" is redundant constructions .the second they should be omited.

"they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are  " is correct express.

要么是"but they are more flavorful"，要么是"but more flavorful"。

"but are more flavorful"不是正确的表达方式。

嗯，反正那个they要去掉，are可省略。

觉的E错啊！～～

醉兄，不是这样子的。

are可以省略，但they也要同时省略掉，这种情况下就是but连接两个形容词，而不是句子。

如果带着are，那么就是连接句子，句子要有主语，they就不可以省略。

E虽然有点啰嗦，但语法上是不错的。D的although不能这样直接连接形容词，反而是错的。

你说呢？

嗯，貌似这个although的用法有问题，although可以跟介词，不知道可不可以跟形容词或者动词。

查的oxford上写的although后可以接形容词的

例句：He performed the task well, although slowly.

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以下是引用nina_nn在2007-4-24 15:43:00的发言：

查的oxford上写的although后可以接形容词的

例句：He performed the task well, although slowly.

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偶现在明白了，E的they用法没错，but前面有逗号they省略和不省略都没有错。og上也有例子。

D还是平行问题or with

我觉得E不对，应该选D。说说我的理由哦。

1.E里面的have是个大问题。在OG里面，have和with一般是不能混用的，OG－10里面的例题，我看到现在，have作实义动词时，都是作possess的意思，跟中文里的“有”含义是不同的。这里说这些tomato ‘possess’bruises，显然是不对的。OG里have的用法，可以看看下面这道题：

165. At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls' high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.

(A)  where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are

(B)   where they have 49 percent of the household incomes

(C)  where 49 percent of the household incomes are

(D)  which has 49 percent of the household incomes

(E)   in which 49 percent of them have household incomes

C, the best choice, uses a clear, direct, and economical adjective clause to indicate the percentage of household incomes below the poverty line in the community in question. Choices A and E insert the pronoun them without a stated antecedent. In addition, the wording of both A and E confuses the percentage of community residents (the implied referent of them) with the percentage of households, not the same thing at all. Choice B introduces the pronoun they without an anteced­ent. Furthermore, the use of have in B and E and of has in D illogically suggests that the community possesses 49% of all the household incomes below the poverty line.

2.but they are...这里的they are是redundant。正如wei_wangyan所言，although后面的they are要么保留，要么全部省掉，但在D里面，they are确实同时省略了，although more flavorful。

3.姑且不论have的问题，有人说E是平行对称结构，那么我要问的是，为什么要写成“they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are”？如果but 后面的they are补出，为什么要用or have，不用or they have？

所以我觉得D对

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