OG17-#725 新题 General Market Inactivity

猪小王

有没有牛牛帮忙理清一下思路：
Making things even more difficult has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided little in the way of pricing guidance.

A) has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided
B) there is general market inactivity, if not paralysis, lately it has provided
C) general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has lately provided
D) lately, general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has provided
E) is that lately general market inactivity, if not paralysis, which provides

说说我的理解：

原句分解：

Main Clause: Making things evenmore difficult (X) has been general market inactivity lately (Y).

Dependent Clause: general marketinactivity lately (Y) (which) has provided little in the way of pricing guidance (Z).

第一个疑点: which一定要修饰就近的noun，即paralysis （瘫痪）。这么写让句子意思illogical，因为paralysis不会provide little in the way of pricing guidance, 而是provide nothing.

Inactivity vs. Paralysis in the Real Estate Market

Paralysis应该是realestate市场测地冻结; 而general market inactivity只是市场不活跃。比如, 一个冬天某个city只有三栋房子成交，这是inactivate，而paralysis是没有一栋房子成交（那样的话，因为没有参考价格，seller不知道自己的房子在市场上的价格）。

第二个疑点: 从meaning上理解，应该是general market inacitivity makes things even more difficult LATELY. Lately虽然放在句尾，但是it modifies make.

第三个疑点：has been 是起到linkingverb的作用。Making things even more difficult (HAS BEEN) general market inactivitylately. 两个phrases不in parallel. Gerund vs. Noun.

D的meaning清晰：Making things even more difficult LATELY, general market inactivity, [ifnot paralysis], HAS provided little in the way of pricing guidance.

Making things ... 作为adverbial modifier修饰整个main clause：Becausegeneral market inactivity has provided little in the way of pricing guidance,this event makes things even more difficult lately.

Gkibt

一点小想法，没有扣得太细，只是做题时候大脑反映的一点想法

扫一眼句子，不太明白什么意思，但是，可以确定 if not paralysis 是个插入语，基本没有什么重要信息，重要的是如何让插入语前后句连起来。

A：which 最好是就近修饰名词，那就是 名词为paralysis，与前句没关系，有改变句意的嫌疑，排除。
B：前半句没有动词，直接排除
C：lately的修饰问题，原句lately修饰market inactivity，在这个选项里修饰provided，排除
D：主句明确，general market has。。。。 前后不论加了什么修饰 都很合理，留着
E：还是which有修饰问题，除此以外， is 后面紧接着跟着that，然后 又出现了which，那么这个句子是不完整的，结构上来说不是一个句子，排除。

答案 D

猪小王

又找到2个类似的例子：

It is called a sea, but the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, which covers more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size, North America's Lake Superior.
A. It is called a sea, but the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, which covers
B. Although it is called a sea, actually the landlocked Caspian is the largest lake on Earth, which covers
C. Though called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, covering
D. Though called a sea but it actually is the largest lake on Earth, the landlocked Caspian covers
E. Despite being called a sea, the largest lake on Earth is actually the landlocked Caspian, covering

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.
A. Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering
B. Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber
C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother 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 marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering
E. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

这三道题目的正确句子是

• Making things even more difficultlately, general marketinactivity, if not paralysis, has providedlittle in the way of pricing guidance.
• Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, whichwere written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage toEmily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber her letters to anyone else.
• Though called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth,covering more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size,North America’s Lake Superior.
  
  
  

1和3用了"comma-ing"都是因为main clause和ing modifier有relationship。类似Jack worked so hard in python 101, receiving an A in the final.

2不用comma-ing，因为Letters were written over a period 与 Letters outnumber her letters to anyone else没有relationship关系。

类似Ron给的那个example：

my brother, who ate bagel bites for breakfast every single day of his high school career, graduated in 1994. --> correct; his eating bagel bites had no impact on his graduation date.
my brother ate bagel bites for breakfast every single day of his high school career, graduating in 1994. --> incorrect; these are two unrelated observations, but this construction erroneously implies some sort of relationship.

小紅花

和楼上情况差不多，扫了一眼没太懂，然后用排除法最后留下D。看了OG关于倒置的解释，也不是很懂。看了一眼歪果仁论坛。以下这个解释还挺好懂的：
句子的一般语序应该是： General market inactivity is making things difficult, 如果没有引起paralysis，前面整件事导致了 provided little in pricing guidance.

LuyanWang

理论上应该是：

Lately, general market inactivity makes things even more difficult. If not paralysis, general market inactivity has provided little in the way of pricing guidance.

由于想要合并在一个句子里， which has provided little in the way of pricing guidance & if not paralysis 都是形容general market inactivity 的，which is the subject of the sentence.

这样，就把第一句话的宾语提前了。

Making things more difficult lately (lately 修饰making), general market inactivity, if not paralysis, which has provided
然而这个时候，第一没有谓语，第二which 看起来像是修饰paralysis。所以去掉which 后面的宾语就用来说明主语了，paralysis不变。
还有GMAT的一个主要的princple是，最重要的东西一定要在主句里面。

A) Making things even more difficult has been general market inactivity lately, if not paralysis, which has provided little in the way of pricing guidance.  
❌： which 看起来像修饰paralysis

B) Making things even more difficult there is general market inactivity, if not paralysis, lately it has provided little in the way of pricing guidance.  
❌：making things even more difficult 后面应该有一个comma
❌：两个句子用comma链接
句子链接：；或者 ,and 链接两个独立主句

C) Making things even more difficult general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has lately provided little in the way of pricing guidance.   
❌：making things even more difficult 后面应该加comma

D) lately, general market inactivity, if not paralysis, has provided -->正确答案
E) is that lately general market inactivit/*不是完整句子*/y, if not paralysis, which provides

笛安

我的理解：D lately放的位置恰到好处，修饰前面的动名词：最近让事情变得更加困难；逗号将名词短语和动名词短语隔开；if not paralysis是插入语，进一步补充说明前面的市场不活跃；has的主语是市场不活跃；making...是句子的结果状语，修饰整个句子，只不过正常的语序应该放在句尾，这里把这个成分提到前面了，以示强调

笛安

我的理解：D lately放的位置恰到好处，修饰前面的动名词：最近让事情变得更加困难；逗号将名词短语和动名词短语隔开；if not paralysis是插入语，进一步补充说明前面的市场不活跃；has的主语是市场不活跃；making...是句子的结果状语，修饰整个句子，只不过正常的语序应该放在句尾，这里把这个成分提到前面了，以示强调

请各位大牛批评指正

ZHANGFFrank

Gkibt 发表于 2017-1-5 07:25
一点小想法，没有扣得太细，只是做题时候大脑反映的一点想法

扫一眼句子，不太明白什么意思，但是，可以确 ...

同意！               

拉美

我认为大家考虑这个题目可以另辟蹊径
这里有一个关键问题，在于状语从句省略 -----这里的状语从句省略作为一个插入语出现是为了强调主语的某些特征                                                                                                                                          eg.Hundreds of people ,if not thousands of people,lost their lives in the earthquake -----Hundreds of people ,if (hundreds of people were )not thousands of people,lost their lives in the earthquake  因此这个题目也是类似，虽然if not paralysis是一个插入语，分析句子主要框架的时候可以不看，但是这个插入语的出现提醒你要和这个状语从句省略结构匹配一个合适的主语，从这个角度来说，就是c和d选项符合了，但是doing，svo的形式很明显d不符合