[讨论]OG－102 excepting与except for的区别继续讨论中...

今天看到OG102的讨论觉得很不错,关于D选项中excepting与except for的区别问题.但是也没有结果,于是把问题重新贴出来希望更多的人能够参与进来

把题目重贴一遍:

102. Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.>>

(A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged>>

(B) Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it>>

(C) Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself>>

(D) Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself

根据langman:

excepting,preposition:

1)used to introduce the only thing or person in a group about which a statement is not true [= except (for)]:

eg.O'Rourke answered all the questions excepting the last one.

如果说excepting和except for有相同的意思,那么我对OG102 D就有新的认识,不知道对不对?

1)excepting在此如果作为except的动名词解,那么 分词在句首,其逻辑主语为句子主语 ,主语为Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera,逻辑关系就错了;

2)excepting在此如果作介词解(我认为在题是作介词,因为OG解释: the use of Excepting in place of the preposition Except for is unidiomatic.那么就应该是可以互换的(前提是excepting作为介词可以放句首,根据现代英汉综合大辞典:excepting,prep.[用于句首或 not, without, always 后面]表"除...外").

现在的问题就是,D选项中excepting有两种含义,容易产生歧义.按照ETS的一贯思路,就应该是unidiomatic.

to be discuss...

按照OG11的解释，excepting usually appears in negative constructions; it is not the correct idiom in this sentence.

美国人可能认为excepting，就应该出现在有not、no等否定结构里。所以不能用excepting。