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jessiebetty

Q19:

New genetic evidence—together with recent studies of elephants’ skeletons, tusks, and other anatomical features—provide compelling support for classifying
                Africa’s forest elephants and its savanna elephants as separate species.

 

A.     provide compelling support for classifying

B.     provide compelling support for the classification of

C.     provides compelling support to the classification of

D.     provides compelling support for classifying

E.      provides compelling support to classify

简直就是E拉，为什么是D

soloenti

support2
            S2
            W2

1approval [uncountable]
            approval, encouragement, and perhaps help for a person, idea, plan etc:

Local people have
                    given
                us a lot of
                support
                in our campaign.

support for  当名词用  用for应该是没错

There was
                        widespread support
                    for the war.

in support
            

They signed a petition in support of the pay claim.

support of
            

He had
                        the full support
                    of the general committee.

Thompson has
                        won the support
                    of half the party.

The organisers are hoping to
                    drum up support (=get many people's approval)
                from local businesses.

ptr07

provide sth for ...

yangree

    gwd-27-15
    

Recent findings lend strong support to the theory that a black hole lies at the center of the Milky Way and of many of the 100 billion other galaxies estimated to exist in the universe.

A. that a black hole lies at the center of the Milky Way and of

2. that a black hole lies at the Milky Way’s center and
3. that there is a black hole lying at the Milky Way’s center and
4. of a black hole lying at the Milky Way’s center and
5. of a black hole that lies at the center of the Milky Way and of 是不是support作为名词，后面具体用什么，应该根据环境而定呢？这个句子里就是lend support to,因为lend to的原因，而不是只是参考support后面在词典里跟什么介词呢？迷惑中
   

ptr07

think strong support as sth, lend sth to

windspeaker

也就是说这里的support 是 sth 吧

leoozop

support for

snowofjune

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Ironpanda

以下是引用leoozop在2007-1-13 22:49:00的发言：
support for

你还来，呵呵，这里support明明是一个n,支持provide for的说法

dan2007

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