请教885补充212

gemj

212.    Following the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, investigators concluded that many key people employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractors work an excessive amount of overtime that has the potential of causing errors in judgment.
(A) overtime that has the potential of causing
(B) overtime that has the potential to cause
(C) overtime that potentially can cause
(D) overtime, a practice that has the potential for causing
(E) overtime, a practice that can, potentially, cause
Answer: E
问题：E中的potentially在意思上不与can重复吗?(MW: potential: existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality)
D错在哪里?谢谢!

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-9 15:29:55编辑过]

hwan

True, ( E ) is imperfect, but minor. ( D)'s "has the potential for causing" is awkard.

renprince

potential of doing sth should be better.
E中的potentially在意思上不与can重复吗?
不重复啊，can cause

gemj

感谢hwan！
感谢renprince！不过我明白renprince的意思。我是说potentially有可能的意思，而can也有可能的意思，难道不重复吗？

braveMBA

Another explanation:

"[A practice] [has] the potential for causing errors in judgment" is not a good method of expression in GMAT. You had better not say "A practice has something", but rather say "a practice can cause something", because "has" means a kind of character of sb or sth. For example, I have many good friends in CD.

Above mentioned reasons are all my own opinions, only as reference.

LES

OG159中明确说can 和 potentially 是redundant，为什么补充题212就选E了呢？

159. While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating for home-owners, whose equity—in many cases representing a life’s savings—can plunge or even disappear.

(A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose
(B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their
(C) for homeowners they are potentially devastating, because their
(D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating in that their（A）
(E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose

Choice A is the best. Its wording is unambiguous and economical. The plural pronoun they agrees with its antecedent, property values. The pronoun whose clearly refers to homeowners and efficiently connects them with the idea of lost equity. In B, C, and D, substituting in that their or because their for whose is wordy and confusing since the antecedent of their might be they, not homeowners. Furthermore, can potentially is redundant in B and E. Both D and E use the singular pronoun it, which does not agree with its logical antecedent, property values.

rhod

LES, 我想braveMBA gg说的有道理。我们一般说人has the potential, 而不是什么事情。

所以can potentially的语义重复问题相对可以容忍。

LES

rhod，谢谢！可是偶做的时候一看到can, potentially，就先排除了C、E选项。

rhod

呵呵，吃一堑长一智，让我们更加清醒地认识到ETS的狡猾。

fchn951

我认为此处can和potentially不重复， can, potentially, cause....是因为这儿的potentially前后有逗号，你可以仔细体会

can, potentially, cause

和

can potentially cause

的区别