manhattan教程中平行结构习题的第九题为何要去掉逗号

凤凰不传奇 · 发表于 2012-9-5 11:43:28

The blizzard deposited more than a foot of snow on the train tracks, prompted the transit authority to shut down service temporarily, and causing discontent among commuters who were left stranded for hours

A: The blizzard deposited more than a foot of snow on the train tracks, prompting the transit authority to shut down service temporarily and causing discontent among commuters who were left stranded for hours

I can understand answer which change "

ROMPTED" to "

ROMPTING".
But why comma was removed in the answer? It is not clear for me.
Can comma be added in front of "and", if parallel clause is long or independent?
这句子不够长吗？

wyw1018 · 发表于 2012-9-5 13:09:09

去掉逗号表明prompting和causing平行，如果不去掉逗号，表明causing和deposited平行，反而不平行了。

abjure · 发表于 2012-9-5 13:53:18

在 prompting the transit authority to shut down service temporarily and causing discontent among commuters who were left stranded for hours 两者是平行的 Verb modifer 修饰前面的紧邻的 clause ”The blizzard deposited more than a foot of snow on the train tracks".
标点符号一般是方便读者的阅读，即你一个词群一个词群去读句子，相同功能且平行modifer 放在一起且没有逗号隔开读起来挺好的况且这两个modifer 也不是很长影响你阅读。

凤凰不传奇 · 发表于 2012-9-5 18:37:55

谢谢大侠

DUKB24 · 发表于 2012-9-5 20:54:56

在 prompting the transit authority to shut down service temporarily and causing discontent among commuters who were left stranded for hours 两者是平行的 Verb modifer 修饰前面的紧邻的 clause ”The blizzard deposited more than a foot of snow on the train tracks".
标点符号一般是方便读者的阅读，即你一个词群一个词群去读句子，相同功能且平行modifer 放在一起且没有逗号隔开读起来挺好的况且这两个modifer 也不是很长影响你阅读。

-- by 会员 abjure (2012/9/5 13:53:18)

这个解释相当给力啊，我之前都嫌很难表述都不知道怎么打了，V5一个

manhattan教程中平行结构习题的第九题为何要去掉逗号

谢谢

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