OG16 SC18 求大神帮忙解答

Hailee

Hailee 发表于 2015-8-19 21:44
in doing 是介词短语当状语，只能修饰动词，可能这里没有逗号有点怪，但是一个状语绝对不能修饰名词的。 ...

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豆腐店的86

http://www.beatthegmat.com/leaf-cutters-and-most-other-ants-in-having-nests-t284776.html
解释了 in-doing的问题

jingliu097

CINDY11 发表于 2015-8-2 23:54
9月23呢。是一战吗

我也是耶！

jingliu097

豆腐店的86 发表于 2015-8-20 05:44
http://www.beatthegmat.com/leaf-cutters-and-most-other-ants-in-having-nests-t284776.html
解释了 in- ...

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总结
in + VERBing is an ADVERB.
Generally, in + VERBing serves to modify the VERB IN THE FOLLOWING CLAUSE.
An adverb cannot serve to modify a noun.
Thus, it is not possible for in having to serve to modify leaf cutters and most other ants (two nouns).
In D, the only eligible referent for in having is make -- the verb in the following clause. Since a VERBing modifier implies CONCURRENT action, the following meaning is conveyed:
When raider ants MAKE A PORTABLE NEST, they are simultaneously HAVING NESTS SITUATED UNDERGROUND OR IN PIECES OF WOOD.
This meaning is nonsensical.
Eliminate D.

jessicamss

因为in doing 找过来的，这个贴子真的是太好啦！  我一战失败的原因果然太多了！

Elaine_Eady

jessicamss 发表于 2015-9-23 20:00
因为in doing 找过来的，这个贴子真的是太好啦！  我一战失败的原因果然太多了！ ...

不急不急，耐下心来把GMAT这个小怪兽干掉吧

小俞蛋

我不赞同楼上的理解
我认为unlike leaf cuttters and most other ants in having nests situated underground or...这句话应理解为
unlike X in doing sth
X=leaf cutters and most other ants
have nests situated underground的动作发出者是leaf cutters and most other ants, [idiom: have sth done]

楼上说in doing sth相当于adverb, 不能修饰noun故而排除D
但是请回想一个简单的例子idiom: have difficulty in doing sth
此处的in doing sth难道就不是在修饰difficulty了吗

此处OG的官方解释我也不懂，但明显不是因为动作发出者就可以排除D选项的
所以还是理解为awkward phrase比较好，你看到种unlike sb in doing sth的句型就已经感受到不常用很奇怪就可以了。

qingqing8982

Elaine_Eady 发表于 2015-7-25 09:36
嗯，看到很多OG的解释是wordy awkward，觉得可能非native很难感觉出这些吧。

楼主，我个人的看法是in having nest有两种可能：1.做the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants的后置定语，类似the sun in the sky; 2.做状语，修饰主句谓语。

如果in having nests做的是leaf cutters and most other ants的后置定语，那么the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests, situated underground or in pieces of wood整个就是一个带修饰的名词，其结构是很awkward的

in having nests如果做状语，那么应该修饰全句的谓语make, 逻辑主语raider ants,那么表达的意思就是注释中解释的情况,是错误的。但是选项D的写法看上去有点别扭，一般我们会在in前面加逗号隔开。

所以综上两种情况都不可能正确。但OG直接认定情况2。求讨论对情况1的想法是否正确？谢谢

小俞蛋

Elaine_Eady 发表于 2015-7-19 23:39
刚刚看到一位同学的解释，可以参考一下啦～

这道题还原前半句貌似是

很少会有subject is unlike...这种用法吧，这样说不通的啦，费解

olivia321

小俞蛋 发表于 2016-1-3 17:21
我不赞同楼上的理解
我认为unlike leaf cuttters and most other ants in having nests situated undergrou ...

in doing是状语，是绝对不能修饰名词的。你举的例子是中，in doing修饰的是difficulty之前的动词，have。曼哈顿语法说了，As their name indicates, adverbial modifiers modify verbs and adverbs. They can also modify adjectives, prepositional phrases, clauses…anything that isn't just a plain noun.