v-ing 或to do形式是否一般情况下不会放在句首？？ 有例子，望了解的同学帮帮忙~

韩玄宝

Written on March 7, 2012 at 12:55 am by Take GMAT Team
GMAT Question of The Day: Adams’ lengthy separation from her familyFiled under GMAT Question of the Day, GMAT Sentence Correction{18 comments}




To read of Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of
答案A,我B


Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South, Hosea Hudson, a laborer in Alabama, joined the Communist party in 1931.
(A) Seeming to be
(B) As
(C) In that they seemed
(D) Since it seemed
(E) Because it seemed to be
答案E,我B。虽然没玄A，但想了解下到底在gmat中什么情况v-ing会在句首？？？？？
同学们尽情发表下意见哇~~

韩玄宝

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movcn

To read of Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of
答案A,我B
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结构为 TO read... is to feel....


Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South, Hosea Hudson, a laborer in Alabama, joined the Communist party in 1931.
(A) Seeming to be
(B) As
(C) In that they seemed
(D) Since it seemed
(E) Because it seemed to be
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Seeming...(Doing...), a laborer....joined the party.
这个V-ING是一个MODIFIER,用来修饰后面的主语，LABORER

韩玄宝

To read of Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of
答案A,我B
---------------------------
结构为 TO read... is to feel....


Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South, Hosea Hudson, a laborer in Alabama, joined the Communist party in 1931.
(A) Seeming to be
(B) As
(C) In that they seemed
(D) Since it seemed
(E) Because it seemed to be
---------------------
Seeming...(Doing...), a laborer....joined the party.
这个V-ING是一个MODIFIER,用来修饰后面的主语，LABORER

-- by 会员 movcn (2012/4/4 11:32:16)

谢谢第一题恍然大悟诶
但第二题答案是E，只是我对A为什么错不是很了解~~

movcn

To read of Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to fell intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of
答案A,我B
---------------------------
结构为 TO read... is to feel....


Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South, Hosea Hudson, a laborer in Alabama, joined the Communist party in 1931.
(A) Seeming to be
(B) As
(C) In that they seemed
(D) Since it seemed
(E) Because it seemed to be
---------------------
Seeming...(Doing...), a laborer....joined the party.
这个V-ING是一个MODIFIER,用来修饰后面的主语，LABORER

-- by 会员 movcn (2012/4/4 11:32:16)

谢谢第一题恍然大悟诶
但第二题答案是E，只是我对A为什么错不是很了解~~

-- by 会员 韩玄宝 (2012/4/4 12:02:21)

所以，根据逻辑来说，第二句的主语LABORER不可以作为SEEMING的逻辑主语，而是COMMUNISTS PARTY，所以SEEMING不可以修饰LABORER,故此，A错误。
判断V-ING作为MODIFIER是否正确修饰主语，要确定V是否为主语所发出。


另外TO DO INTRODUCED PHRASE强调的是目的，DOING是手段。COMPARE THE TWO BELOW
TO GET TO WORK ON TIME I HAVE TO GET UP AT SIX IN MORNING.
GETTING TO WORK ON TIME EVERYDAY WILL MAKE SURE I GET A BONUS AT THE END OF EACH MONTH.