请教一下OG11测试 P41 44题

OG11测试 P41  44题

Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across therugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, providing The port of New York City with adirect water link to the heartland of the North American continent.

B)  Seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected

E)  The Erie Canal, seldom more than40 feet wide and12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

我选的E答案是B，我想问为什么connected可以，感觉应该对应providing,答案说the use of connecting rather than coected creates a sentence fragment我没看明白，希望大家赐教，谢谢

E令句子没有谓语

Seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal
        connected the Hudson River
        at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, providing The port of New York City with adirect water link to the heartland of the North American continent.

句子的主干就是the Erie Canal
            connected the Hudson River， connect做谓语当然不能用分词形式啦。

谢谢二位的点拨，做题的时候脑子经常会别老，呵呵。

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