og17一道新题的指代考点

MS06

The eyes of the elephant seal adapt to darkness more quickly than any other animal yet tested, thus allowing it to hunt efficiently under the gloomy conditions at its feeding depth of between 300 and 700 meters.

A.

The eyes of the elephant seal adapt to darkness more quickly than any other animal yet tested, thus allowing it

B.

The eyes of the elephant seal adapt to darkness more quickly than does any other animal yet tested, allowing them

C.

The eyes of the elephant seal adapt to darkness more quickly than do those of any other animal yet tested, allowing it

D.

Because they adapt to darkness more quickly than any other animal yet tested, the eyes of the elephant seal allow it

E.

Because the eyes of the elephant seal adapt to darkness more quickly than do those of any other animal yet tested, it allows them

No,762,关于象海豹的题，其他语法点都l很清楚了。就是关于其中的代词，我记得OG有一道题说过，of之后的noun不可以被pronoun指代，但这个it在解释里却说是指代了象海豹。是我理解错了？

Jagabee

楼上两位都说的对, 代词是要具体情况具体分析的，要结合题目和五个选项来看. 不要只记得sloth那道题it不可以指代sloth其他的就也不行, 那道题其他选项有提供the sloth，这道题所有选项都用的代词. 而且那道题主要错不在it, 有其他更严重的错误.

yuhe123

个人觉得没有指代问题那，---allow sth to hurt efficiently......这个sth只能指代elephant seal这个动物啊，不可能是让眼睛捕食得更efficiently吧。。

iamxixi9

不要纠结it指代的问题，这是个GMAC都难以自圆其说的问题。SC里有些正确选项也不是完美的，选最接近完美的那个就好。相比It指代的问题，选项中还会有其他差异让你进行判断，记得MANHATTAN中那段话，只有到了最后没的选的时候，才去考虑指代的问题。
虽然指代是个判断点，但也别过分关注。
就本题来说，非划线的部分its已经是给出的结果了，那it指代的也就很明显了，不用太纠结。

Johnny84

dxyl1113 发表于 2016-9-10 13:18
感谢分享。正好也在疑惑这道题代词指代的考点。如Kaplan老师所说，代词可以就近指代名词，即使该名词为介 ...

我也蒙了，不过后来理解应该是OG760 it可能即指代arm又可以指代 sloth又可以指代Puerto Rico 所以错。这里没有别的单数了。。。。 这个不知道哪个大神能验证下。

dxyl1113

MS06 发表于 2016-9-6 17:39
我在国外的论坛上找到了一条Kaplan老师关于这个点的解答。想了一下确实能和逻辑的指代物也确实这有elepha ...

感谢分享。正好也在疑惑这道题代词指代的考点。如Kaplan老师所说，代词可以就近指代名词，即使该名词为介词of的宾语，那岂不是和OG760的A选项的解释有些矛盾了？

Fiona09

MS06 发表于 2016-9-6 17:39
我在国外的论坛上找到了一条Kaplan老师关于这个点的解答。想了一下确实能和逻辑的指代物也确实这有elepha ...

感谢分享~~ 此处有花~

MS06

Fiona09 发表于 2016-9-6 10:21
这里的it确实指代的是elephant seal... 同求NN解答~~

我在国外的论坛上找到了一条Kaplan老师关于这个点的解答。想了一下确实能和逻辑的指代物也确实这有elephant seal了。

Ok. We will try to use some other noun than Obama to refer to he and see how it works out.

The legacy of Obama is X and (he) Putin is my best friend. What is the point in this sentence? Does this sentence give a complete sense? Unless you indicate who that he is, the sentence remains infructious. On the contrary, if ‘he’ is seen to refer to Obama, then the semblance of disconnect and discreteness disappears in the context.

In that same fashion, try to ascribe the pronoun ‘it’ to any other animal, say a lion, and see what is the connect between the eyes of the Seal and a lion hunting efficiently. After all, there is a law of proximity in the antecedence of a pronoun and the nearest noun, even it be an object, can be referred to by the pronoun. Here it may be noted the elephant seal is the object of the preposition ‘of’

Basically, a pronoun stands for a noun already extant in the clause as the name defines, and therefore, there can never be a stand-alone pronoun in formal writing.

Finally, will you say that Tom had a pint of beer to quench his (Dick’s) thirst? Why would the seal adapt swiftly to darkness to make some other animal hunt efficiently?
Pl. ponder

原文链接：http://gmatclub.com/forum/the-eyes-of-the-elephant-seal-adapt-to-darkness-more-quickly-than-any-220382.html

MS06

Fiona09 发表于 2016-9-6 10:21
这里的it确实指代的是elephant seal... 同求NN解答~~

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Fiona09

这里的it确实指代的是elephant seal... 同求NN解答~~