介词+名词+分词这种结构永远错吗？

luckyloser

看如下题：Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included


其中，有个老外专家说：
First, we can eliminate all the answer choices that use with communal eating and social facilities included or any other structure that follows this pattern:

preposition + noun + participle

This pattern is almost always wrong on the GMAT, and is certainly wrong in this question. This eliminates C) and E).


但是，我在查without和with的用法时，可以这么用：
She fell asleep with the light burning.（with+名词+现在分词 ，作伴随状语）或者Without anything left in the cupboard， she went out to get something to eat


想确认一下，是不是Gmat中认为这中表达是错误的？

jeffery2541

是D选项吗？

jeffery2541

请问正确答案是哪一个？

luckyloser

我自己解决了。官方解释如下：

i'd be hesitant to posit this as an actual rule. i think that the more precise rule is like this:
if the actual object of the preposition is the verb, not the noun, then you can't use this construction.

here's what i mean:
you can't say "my parents heard about me failing the test". the reason isn't simply because it's prep+pron+verb, though, but because of semantics: they didn't hear about me - they heard about the failing.
the proper way to phrase this sort of thing, which is still really awkward-looking, is "my parents heard about my failing the test".

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in general, though, i wouldn't rule out this construction outright. for instance, i don't think the gmat would have a problem with a construction like
coats and ties are the dress code for guests eating dinner in the main hall.
i can't think of an alternative way to phrase this that isn't hopelessly awkward.