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刚刚看Manhattan发现一处这类句子的注意事项,给楼主补充在这里:
In most English sentences the subject precedes the verb. However, the GMAT occasionally attempts to confuse you by inverting this order and placing the subject after the verb. In sentences in which the subject follows the verb, flip the word order of the sentence so that the subject precedes the verb. This way, you will identify the subject much more readily. For example:
Wrong: Near those buildings SIT a lonely house, inhabited by squatters.
Flip it! A lonely house, inhabited by squatters, SITS near those buildings.
Right: Near those buildings SITS a lonely house, inhabited by squatters.
In the original sentence, the singular subject house follows the verb. The verb form sit is mis- takenly plural, but your ear may not catch this error because the verb is near the plural word buildings. Consider this example:
Wrong: There IS a young man and an older woman at the bus stop.
Flip it! A young man and an older woman ARE there at the bus stop.
Right: There ARE a young man and an older woman at the bus stop.
By flipping the sentence so that the subject precedes the verb, you can see more easily that the compound subject a young man and an older woman is plural. In spoken English, there is is often used incorrectly with plural subjects. The subject of a there is or there are expression follows the verb.
Look for flipped subjects and verbs in subordinate clauses as well:
Uncertain: Pong is a classic game from which have/has descended many current con puter pastimes.
Flip it! Pong is a classic game from which many current computer pastimes HAVE descended.
Right: Pong is a classic game from which HAVE descended many current computer pastimes.
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