一道语法题求助~~

Cassie0821

Researchers have discovered a new species of sparrow that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees and whose coloring is completely different from all other sparrows.
• that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees and whose coloring is completely different from
• that lives only in cypress groves, is almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and has coloring completely different from that of
• living only in cypress groves, is almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and whose coloring is completely different from
• that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and whose coloring is completely different from that of
• living only in cypress groves, depending almost wholly on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and having coloring completely different than  
答案是B，想问为什么D错了？谢谢大家！不要只看不答呀~~

拼图跑步旅游

唔 如果b是正确答案 d和b比起来 d 选项看来 and 前后不平行。b 选项中的 has 是与 前句中的 lives 是平行起来的。 但是我不太理解 “  , is almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees,   ” 这两个逗号之间的句子成分，感觉整个句子读起来好奇怪。（ps 刚刚开始学sc两周，不知道自己分析的对不对）

elsiechen

我是这么想的 这三个内容是麻雀三个不同的特点 是独立的 再由and连接 考平行
d选项第一个和第三个是从句 而中间的是adj短语 不是一类 不平行

ssyecho

后两个平行应该是省略了that ，所以补上的话就是sparrow that lives......,that is .....and that has .....三个形容sparrow的从句平行
如果是D的话 中间的那一项是一个modifier ，可以被理解成是修饰前面的 cypress groves，但逻辑上是修饰sparrow的，会造成歧义
我是这么理解的嗯

守望的倒影

错误最大的地方在于： dependent 本应修饰sparrow，D选项引入歧义  dependent 修饰了researcher

Cassie0821

拼图跑步旅游 发表于 2016-10-29 17:16
唔 如果b是正确答案 d和b比起来 d 选项看来 and 前后不平行。b 选项中的 has 是与 前句中的 lives 是平行起 ...

意思是D中that从句和whose不平行吗？

Cassie0821

ssyecho 发表于 2016-10-29 17:50
后两个平行应该是省略了that ，所以补上的话就是sparrow that lives......,that is .....and that has .... ...

明白了！！！非常感谢！！我忽略了中间那个修饰逻辑上应该修饰sparrow

Cassie0821

elsiechen 发表于 2016-10-29 17:31
我是这么想的 这三个内容是麻雀三个不同的特点 是独立的 再由and连接 考平行
d选项第一个和第三个是从句 而 ...

恩恩 看懂了~~好感谢！！

Cassie0821

守望的倒影 发表于 2016-10-29 17:54
错误最大的地方在于： dependent 本应修饰sparrow，D选项引入歧义  dependent 修饰了researcher ...

谢谢！dependent 为什么修饰了researcher呢？可不可以看成修饰了groves?

FighterC

今天刚好在曼哈顿模考做了这题，我也错了。帮你粘贴一下解释。
The original sentence intends to identify a sparrow by the fact that it lives in cypress groves, eats certain berries, and has certain coloring. All these facts about the sparrow must be presented in parallel form. However, in the original sentence, these facts are presented in different forms. We need to find a choice that presents them all in parallel fashion. Moreover, "whose coloring is different from all other sparrows" is incorrect. The sparrow's coloring is different from the coloring of other sparrows, not from the sparrows themselves. We need to find a choice that makes this clear.

(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.

(B) CORRECT. This choice remedies the parallelism issue: "lives only in...., is almost wholly... and has coloring..."  The comparison issue is also remedied: "has coloring different from that of all other sparrows."  The comparison is now logically drawn between the coloring of the new species and the coloring ("that") of other species.

(C) This answer choice remedies neither the parallelism issue ("living..., is almost..., and whose coloring") nor the illogical comparison (coloring and sparrows).

(D) While this answer choice remedies the comparison, the parallelism issue persists from the original sentence.

(E) This parallelism issue has been remedied in this answer choice, but the illogical comparison has not.  In addition, the correct idiomatic expression is "different from," not "different than."