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（OG1529）Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a periodbeginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and endingshortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyoneelse.

A Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage toEmily's brother and ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumbering

B Dickinsonwere written over a period that begins a few yearsbefore Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and endedshortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumber

C Dickinson,written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily'sbrother and that ends shortly before Emily's death in 1886 and outnumbering

D Dickinson,which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriageto Emily's brother, ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, andoutnumbering

E Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan'smarriage to Emily's brother and ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumber

Parallelism; Grammatical construction

Themain point of the sentence is that Dickinson’s letters to her sister-in-lawoutnumber her letters to anyone else. To emphasize this point, outnumber should be the main verb, andthe description introduced by the passive verb were written needs to be changed from a main clause to anadjectival phrase.

A.The long, wordy opening clause gives too much emphasis to the period whenDickinson’s letters were written; it is unclear what outnumbering refers to.

Thereis an additional requirement that applies specifically to adverbial modifiersthat use participles: the information presented earlier in the sentence leads to or results in the information presented laterin the sentence.

A选项中were written和outnumbering 没有伴随关系。

B Theverbs describing the letter-writing period (begins and ended) are not parallel.

E.The information about the period when Dickinson’s letters were written iscontained in an adjectival phrase set off by commas, and the main verb outnumber refers clearly to letters.

OG解释中没有提到B中的outnumber是错的，但是我觉得B中ooutnumber和were written构成了双谓语，所以也是错的。大家觉得么？

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咿呀 发表于 2017-3-5 14:46
你说的完全没毛病。

同意！