不知道到底在动名词前要不要加THE?

homecloud

想请教一下:

听XDF说过, 动名词前一定有个THE, (据说是是用这个方法判别是动名词还是分词)

New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.
 

(A) splitting apart continents
 

(B) the splitting apart of continents 这里SLITTING 前有the

(C) split apart continents
 

(D) continents split apart（B）

 (E) continents that were split apart
 

The word splitting must function as a noun to parallel the other items in the noun series of which it is part: reversals, onset, and eruptions. In B, the best choice, the definite article
     the clearly signifies that splitting is to be taken as a noun. In A, splitting introduces a verb phrase that breaks the parallelism of the noun series. In C, the verb split is similarly disruptive. Choice D, grammatically vague, resembles C if split is a verb and E if split is an adjective. In E, continents illogically replaces the splitting in the series: although the impacts in question may have caused continents to split, they did not cause those continents that were split apart 80 million years ago to materialize

GWD3-19

Possible long-term consequences of the “greenhouse effect,” the gradual warming of the Earth’s climate, may include melting the polar ice caps and a rising sea level.

1. may include melting the polar ice caps and a rising sea level
2. may include the melting of polar ice caps and the rising sea level
3. may include polar ice caps that are melting and sea levels that are rising
4. include melting the polar ice caps and sea levels that are rising (E)
5. include melting of the polar ice caps and a rise in sea level

Possible long-term consequences of the “greenhouse effect,” the gradual warming of the Earth’s climate, may include melting the polar ice caps and a rising sea level.

1. may include melting the polar ice caps and a rising sea level
2. may include the melting of polar ice caps and the rising sea level
3. may include polar ice caps that are melting and sea levels that are rising
4. include melting the polar ice caps and sea levels that are rising (E)
5. include melting of the polar ice caps and a rise in sea level

E中在MELTING前面没有THE

不知道到底在动名词前要不要加THE? 可以请大家帮忙解释一下吗?谢谢了!

谢谢了!

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-9-2 21:39:31编辑过]

homecloud

自己顶一下

LZYL

有同样的困惑，翻出这个N年老帖子，发现没人解释再顶一下，请牛牛们帮忙解答

ccmoom

顶一下
“动名词前一定有个THE, (据说是是用这个方法判别是动名词还是分词)”
    有这么个规则吗？

yanxihua00

我也想知道，有疑问。。。。

laria_line

其实这两个的问题就是：action noun除了与complex gerunds平行外，可不可以与simple gerunds平行。
第一题：
eruptions是action noun，所以只有complex gerunds能和它平行，选项中只有the splitting apart of continents是complex gerunds, so B
第二题：
a rise是action noun, melting of the polar ice caps是simple gerunds，theoretically, 是不能平行的，according to Manhattan.但是OG自己也时常很混乱。
例如以下这句话是从OG出来的:
Doctors generally agree that such factors as [cigarette smoking], [eating rich foods high in fats], and [alcohol consumption] not only ... but also ....
这句明显混乱了。
所以我觉得第二题并不是特别完美，欢迎讨论。

LZYL

顶楼上，我也觉得第二题不是很完美，所以想觉得应该是加上the改成名词形式。。。
至于改成名词形式，前面需要加the,我是在LZM的那本书上看到的，不知道靠谱不？不过后面做OG的时候，基本上还是验证了这个事情

LucianLau

讲下我的理解：
1、是否加定冠词

（1）动名词要不要加定冠词 the 还是看冠词用法，这里的 splitting 后面跟了 80 million years ago，肯定是特指的八千万年前的那一次板块运动，所以加定冠词 the
（2）而第二个题很明显，melting 和 a rise 平行，a rise 已经是不定冠词出来，所以 melting 就不要再加 the 了（包括第二题的 B 选项也是，两个都用了定冠词，不会让定冠词和不定冠词平行）

2、action noun除了与complex gerunds平行外，可不可以与simple gerunds平行

选项是比出来的，第二题的 ABD 选项明显不平行了，C 选项割裂了意思，应该是要包含融化、升高的动作而不只是冰川和海平线。
只能选 E，只能说 E 的平行不够完美，但还是平行的。