Although 从句的用法

misuyy

OG12: 14. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun's poles or equator.
(A). are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have not been sighted on
(B). are visible as dark spots that never have been sighted on the surface od the sun
(C).appear as dark spots on the surface of the sun, although never sighted at
(D).appear as dark spots on the surface of the sun, although never having been sighted at
(E).appear as dark spots on the surface of the sun, which have never been sighted on

正解A
C,D选项错误的理由是 although通常引导一个从句， 这个从句不许有subject和verb

如果这个说法成立，那么，下面的情况又怎么解释？
158. With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.
(A) With
(B) As
(C) Being
(D) Despite having
(E) Although accounting for

Answer is E.

AMBER513

看一下！               

paddy114

babybearmm 发表于 2012-4-15 06:05
刚才我也在质疑OG解释里的这个关于although的说法，搜到这个贴子了，发现lz跟我想的一样我觉得吧，这题选A ...

Mark一下！               

einfucs

Mark一下！               

张迪清

babybearmm 发表于 2012-4-15 06:05
刚才我也在质疑OG解释里的这个关于although的说法，搜到这个贴子了，发现lz跟我想的一样我觉得吧，这题选A ...

同意！               

amy14365

搜到了这个帖子。打卡！

olivia321

babybearmm 发表于 2012-4-15 06:05
刚才我也在质疑OG解释里的这个关于although的说法，搜到这个贴子了，发现lz跟我想的一样我觉得吧，这题选A ...

这个解释很厉害很完整，把重点都包括在内了，答主很有钻研精神，佩服。
一点小小的不同意见，OG原题有although的D选项不正确，个人觉得并非如您所言，是因为把although遮掉以后语法不正确，而是以下两个原因：
1）如您引用的American heritage dictionary所言，although在习惯上是放在句首，而非像D两个选项，放在句末
2）退一步说，即便although和though一样，放在句末也是可以接受的，那么语法上说，D选项的although never having been sighted可视为修饰dark spots的被动语态，是说的过去的。关键是语义上，never having been sighted应该修饰的是sunspots，所以不正确。此外，having been时态比较awkward。

以上两个条件合在一起，使得排除D变得比较合理，甚至几乎是板上钉钉。

C选项altough never sighted语法不正确，不知道大家注意到了没有，although前面没有加逗号，导致它无法被视为分词，而是只能成为从句。退一步讲，即便although前面加了逗号，有了成为分词短语的可能性（我用“可能性”这个词，是因为逗号+although也可能成为从句），那么再套用我之前陈述的两个原因，该选项还是会被枪毙掉的。

mysonnic

teddybearj4 发表于 2012-4-28 23:51
baby姐，这道题OG的C、D的解释我有不同理解~~~大家可以讨论讨论哇。我觉得C、D这里说although这里必须要用 ...

从语法角度赞同，从语义角度，Ron有关于 but和although的解释~~http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-995349-1-1.html

liwuruiyun

谢谢大家

zincgirl

厉害！ 学习了！